Psychology 2070A/B Lecture 4: Lecture+4_The Self.rtf
9 Mar 2016
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The self - psychology 2070b-001 - lecture 4 - february 4, 2016. The contents of our sense of self (self-schemas) make up our self-concept. We have high self-concept clarity if our self-schemas are: Low self-concept clarity (also called self-concept confusion) is essenially not having irm knowledge of who we are low self-esteem, depression prone, more neuroic, less aware of their own internal states; chronic self-analysis / ruminaion. Self-concept clarity can be inluenced by situaional factors. There are many aspects of the self that may change when a relaionship ends, ranging from a post- breakup haircut, to alteraions in social aciviies, to modiicaions in personal values. Any combinaion of these changes could contribute to the overall self-confusion that we propose individuals experience when a relaionship ends. The loss of a romanic relaionship has muliple psychological consequences including, as the current data suggest, various types of self-change.
