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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of self-evaluation. The capacity for the need for social positive regard to cause one to intentionally distance the real self and ideal self is explored. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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variety of factors in the determination of personality, as well as for a degree of fluctuation in personality over time due to changing circumstances. One of the most compelling views
on the emergence of personality as a contextual and fluctuating entity is self-evaluation maintenance theory. In this theoretical framework, an individual tends to constantly judge his or her self by
the standards of the achievements of those around them. This can exert a paradoxical effect wherein the successful achievements of close friends can inspire one to share in the success
and regard themselves more positively, or compare themselves to their (ostensibly more successful) friends in such a way that emphasizes the disparity between that friends accomplishments and their own relatively
lesser achievements (or at least the perception thereof). This paper will explore the role of self-evaluation in influencing not only personality, but resulting behavior as well. This paragraph helps the
student introduce the concept of the ideal self and real self. Self-evaluation theory is itself rooted inside another theoretical framework in psychology that dates back to the middle of the
20th century. This theory draws a distinction between the "real self" and "ideal self" in any given individual and asserts that distress and neuroses stem directly from a discrepancy or
disparity between the ideal self (or the self as one perceives it) and the real self (how the self is perceived externally, or is objectively measured) (Kimmel, 1974). When significant
disparities arise between ones impression of ones self and the reality of ones self, one can undergo a crisis of identity and suffer extreme distress as a result. Interestingly, however,
it is entirely possible for individuals to induce such a disparity and the resulting distress in themselves due to social pressures and the need for positive regard. A 1974 study
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