The struggle to get clean results in self-clarity.
Implications for the possible origins and consequences of self-clarity are discussed.
In particular, people with an independent self-construal have a higher level of self-concept clarity (Study 2a), and self-clarity leads to an extreme response style (Study 2b).
Among college students (Study 1) and in a more diverse sample (Study 2), we found that the relationship between actual self-esteem and self-clarity was stronger among participants who had high levels of desired self-esteem.
Further supporting the causal role of actual-desired self-esteem discrepancies in predicting self-clarity, Study 3 found that a manipulation designed to make high self-esteem seem less desirable reduced the relationship between self-esteem and clarity.
I was startled by her self-clarity.
Two studies examine the role of self-structure (self-organisation, self-complexity, and self-concept clarity) in social anxiety.
The first study in this paper examined whether three elements of self-structure – evaluative self-organisation, self-complexity, and self-concept clarity – contributed to social anxiety measured by a scale that can reliably discriminate between social anxiety and depression.
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether three elements of self-structure, namely, evaluative self-organisation, self-complexity, and self-concept clarity, are related to social anxiety in a non-clinical sample.
The two studies described in the present paper build on a sparse literature about the role of self-structure in the maintenance of social anxiety by examining the roles of self-organisation, self-complexity, and self-concept clarity in social anxiety.
The self-descriptive card-sorting task was completed first, followed by the supplementary ratings for each of the self-aspects in participants' card sorts, and then by measures of social anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity, which were counterbalanced across participants to control for order effects.
