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Royce, Joseph R.; Powell, Arnold – Impact of Science on Society, 1983
Presents an overview of the evolving conception of the nature of individual personality, showing how self-images emerge out of style-and-value commitments. Considers interactive relations between individual and society and the possible images of humankind that stem from societal style and value commitments. (JN)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Individual Psychology, Personality, Personality Development
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Taylor, Donald M.; Dube, Lise – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
The article asks the following questions about self-identity: (1) how do people derive a unitary sense of self out of membership in many social categories; (2) do people respond differently when the social as opposed to the personal aspects of their identity are evoked; and (3) how do people respond to collective injustice? (PS)
Descriptors: Moral Development, Personality Development, Racial Identification, Reference Groups
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Morgan, Elyse; Farber, Barry A. – Adolescence, 1982
Evaluates the effects of expanding sex-role alternatives on the passage of American middle-class women through the Eriksonian model of identity achievement. Contrasts contemporary norms regarding appropriate feminine roles with the more constricted social expectations of Erikson's time. Discusses validity of Erikson's original model of female…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Behavior Standards, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
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Semaj, Leahcim Tufani – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1981
Asserts that the existence of Blacks is suppressed by a White dominated world. Argues that social science as it presently exists is an inappropriate superstructure for the development of a psychology of liberation and presents "cultural science" as an alternative model. (Author/DA)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), African Culture, Black Culture, Blacks
Zakharova, A. V. – Soviet Education, 1990
Examines self-assessment as a personality structure that changes in its development as individuals mature. Explains prognosticative, actual (or correcting), and retrospective self-assessment. Develops a structural-dynamic explanatory model, characterizing self-assessment as a systemic formation. Relates self-evaluation to achievement, volitional…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries, Individual Psychology
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Noam, Gil G. – Journal of Moral Education, 1988
Proposes a new theory of self, based on the principles defined by Lawrence Kohlberg in his theory of moral development. The model sets forth self complexity (schemata) and biography (themata) as dimensions of self. Describes normal and atypical development arising from interaction of these components and assesses implications for practice. (KO)
Descriptors: Child Development Specialists, Child Psychology, Children, Emotional Development