Developmental and social perspectives on the self: Bridging unnecessary gaps

Author(s): Greve, W.

Journal/Book: Z Sozpsychol. 1997; 28: Langgass-Strasse 76, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland. Verlag Hans Huber. 3-18.

Abstract: This introduction to the special issue on <<Developmental and social perspectives on the self: Bridging unnecessary gaps> > is meant to serve as a historical and conceptual working framework. With this framework we hope to provide a basis for the discussion of the following social psychological and developmental papers as well as the commentaries provided by experts from the fields of social and developmental psychology. The proposed conceptual working framework orders the research area <<self> > along three dimensions: content - process, cognitive - emotional - conative, conscious - unconscious. Similarities, differences and possibilities of productive exchange between social psychological and developmental approaches to the study of the self are suggested. With regard to methods as well as to theoretical conceptions, the rather microgenetically oriented social psychological approach and the rather ontogenetically oriented developmental approach could profit from each other.

Note: Review Staudinger UM, Max Planck Inst Bildungsforsch, Lentzeallee 94, D-14195 Berlin, GERMANY

Keyword(s): self; self-definition; self-regulation; microgenesis; ontogenesis; PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; POSSIBLE SELVES; PERSONALITY; COGNITION; ORGANIZATION; MOTIVATION; ADULTHOOD; BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK

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