The "self" aspect indicates that the thing being pictured is something the subject owns or wishes to be identified with, in the same kind of way that it might form the subject of an autobiographical essay.
Students are advised at the beginning of 104A about the "nude/naked self" aspect.
"There's a player-vs.-self aspect: 'I want to beat my high score or keep the streak alive,'" says Ross Smith, director of product testing at Microsoft's Unified Communications Group.
More self-aspects and less overlap constitute greater self-complexity.
One physical behaviour can be related to positive self-aspects under one circumstance, but connected to negative self-aspects in another.
This procedure is repeated until the participant has finished identifying self-aspects.
We followed Rafaeli-Mor, Gotlib, and Revelle's (1999) recommendations and used the number of self-aspects (NSA) and the overlap (OL) between different self-aspects to measure self-complexity.
Linville (1987) argues that a stressful life event will activate the self-aspects most relevant to that event.
If the individual has a lot of self-aspects, then only a small proportion of the self is affected.
Overall, participants rated their positive self-aspects as more important than their negative ones (M = 0.64, SD = 0.34).
Minimal overlap also means that other related self-aspects are less likely to be activated, and thus high complexity has a protective effect.
