Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Job Performance, Intelligence Quotient, Overeating

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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The self-concept is an organized collection of beliefs about the self: entails your beliefs about your personality and what you believe to be true about yourself. People desire possible selves that enhance their self-esteem, self-perceived effectiveness, and sense of meaning or purpose among other motives. They also feared developing identities in which such desired motives would be blocked. Individuals have several organized self-perceptions: an actual self qualities you believe you actually possess, an ideal self characteristics you would like to have, an ought self traits you believe you should possess. Self-discrepancy consists of a mismatch between the self-perceptions that make up the actual self, ideal self and ought self. When people live up to their personal standards, they experience high self-estee(cid:373); (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)eet thei(cid:396) own expectations, their self-esteem suffers. When the actual self does not match with the ideal self, it triggers dejection related emotions such as sadness and disappointment leading to depression.