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The Self in Relation to Others: Cognitive and Motivational Underpinningsa

Year: 1997
Type: review
Abstract: any theories about the self hold that one's sense of who one is, or one's conception of self, emerges in the context of the interper-M sonal relations experienced in one's family, social networks, and culture.It is often assumed that early relationships with significant persons in one's life may form patterns of responding that provide, to some degree, a framework for future interpersonal relations.Indeed, in a long history of clinical theory, significant others fiom one's chddhood and later years are thought to be central both to self-definition and to interpersonal life (e.g.,
Institution: New York University
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2159489805
FWCI: 1.014
Cites: 194
Cited by: 72
Related to: 10