PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Personal Development, Positive Psychology, Guttman Scale
7 Dec 2012
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Chapter 7 overview: common theories of the humanists, maslow"s humanistic theory, carl rogers, the assessment and measurement of self-actualization, the contemporary focus on well-being. The b-values: maslow outlined 15 meta-motivations (bvalues) that must be satisfied for self-actualization, an unsatisfied b-value is associated with a specific pathological outcome, unlike maslow"s needs, b-values are equivalent and have no hierarchical relevance. The fully functioning person: rogers maintained that to be fully functioning, one must: Trust own intuition: for rogers, defence mechanisms are employed to combat anxiety during the process of subception an unconscious awareness that feedback is not congruent with the self-perception. Contemporary research reflecting rogers" theory: rogers" notion of a discrepancy between the actual and ideal self has led to research such as flett, Hewitt, blankstein, and gray"s (1998) perfectionism cognitions inventory (pci: elevated scores on the pci are associated with perfectionism and anxiety, rogers believed the root of anxiety is in conditions of worth.
