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- Title
Self-Guide Strength and Emotional Vulnerability: Birth Order as a Moderator of Self-Affect Relations.
- Authors
Newman, Leonard S.; Higgins, Tory; Vookles, Jennifer
- Abstract
This study tested hypotheses derived from developmental extensions of Higgins's self-discrepancy theory. Discrepancies between one's actual self and ideal-other self (a self-guide consisting of attributes someone would ideally like the individual to possess) cause dejection, whereas discrepancies with the ought-other self (beliefs about attributes someone thinks one ought to ham) cause agitation. Self-guides also differ in strength (the accessibility of, coherence of, and commitment to a self-guide). Consideration of the features of parent-child interaction hypothesized to increase self-guide strength led to the prediction that first-borns would have strong "other"-standpoint self-guides and that their discrepancies would be more highly correlated with emotional distress than those of later-borns. It was also predicted that first-borns would have fewer such self-discrepancies. Both predictions were supported. Many birth-order findings are consistent with these results.
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 1992, Vol 18, Issue 4, p402
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167292184003