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Possible Selves (possible + self)
Selected AbstractsSchooling the Possible SelfCURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 4 2004CYNTHIA MCCALLISTER ABSTRACT From a social perspective, one's identity is entirely the product of interaction with others. As children participate in the vast range of social situations, they collect impressions of themselves that coalesce to form a sense of who they are, as well as a narrative framework that helps explain the world and their place within it. These insights create a dynamic identity that is stimulated by one's sense of potential and possibility. The social perspective provides a way to understand how school situations offer the substance from which children develop a sense of self. Literacy is a particularly powerful conduit for the development of self. An understanding of language and literacy, and how these processes are taken up by the child as means to shape his or her social connections and, by extension, his or her social reality, demands an understanding of self and how it evolves through interaction in a range of contexts. The purpose of this article is to describe how "self" plays out through literacy situations at home and school. Borrowing from social and cultural descriptions of the development of self, this article illustrates how these situations provide contexts for the expression and development of self, and offers implications for curriculum and classroom practice. [source] Assessing Future Possible Selves by Gender and Socioeconomic Status Using the Anticipated Life History MeasureJOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 1 2001Harry G. Segal This is a report from the first phase of a longitudinal study of the ways young adults imagine their future lives. The future possible selves of 223 18- and 19-year-old adults were examined using the Anticipated Life History measure (ALH), a psychological instrument prompting participants to describe their future life course from their 21st birthday until their death. When the ALH narratives were coded for presence/absence of life events, female participants were more likely to predict career choice, marriage, children, divorce, and death of spouse than their male counterparts; when coded for psychological qualities, female participants demonstrated greater psychological complexity and awareness of future life role choices and conflicts. Participants with lower SES wrote ALH narratives with fewer altruistic acts, less awareness of life role complexity, and fewer anticipated conflicts and their resolutions than those with higher SES. [source] Possible selves and borderline personality disorderJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2006Irene Belle Janis Although clinical theories suggest that people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) experience a confused sense of self, little empirical research has directly examined the self in BPD (Heard & Linehan, 1993; Westen & Cohen, 1993). In this study, 43 female participants, 15 with BPD and 28 without BPD, completed the closed-ended version of Markus and Wurf's (1987) Possible Selves Questionnaire (PSQ). Participants with BPD were less likely than controls to endorse positive possible selves as current, but more likely to endorse negative possible selves as current, probable, desired, and important. Participants with BPD linked negative and positive selves to their desired selves, which is consistent with the unstable sense of self characteristic of BPD. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 62: 387,394, 2006. [source] Expecting to Work, Fearing Homelessness: The Possible Selves of Low-Income Mothers,JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2009Shawna J. Lee We explored the content of possible selves of low-income mothers and the strategies they have to work on their possible selves. Positive expected possible selves focus on getting a job, making ends meet, and caregiving. Negative to-be-avoided possible selves focus on failing to make ends meet, losing (or not getting) jobs, and problems with mental health. Immediate social context,rather than demographic characteristics or global work,family variables,was associated with content of possible selves. Controlling for demographic and work,family variables, job-focused possible selves (and strategies to attain them) were more salient; and caregiving and mental-health-related possible selves were less salient to mothers in job-training programs vs. welfare offices. [source] Possible selves and borderline personality disorderJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2006Irene Belle Janis Although clinical theories suggest that people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) experience a confused sense of self, little empirical research has directly examined the self in BPD (Heard & Linehan, 1993; Westen & Cohen, 1993). In this study, 43 female participants, 15 with BPD and 28 without BPD, completed the closed-ended version of Markus and Wurf's (1987) Possible Selves Questionnaire (PSQ). Participants with BPD were less likely than controls to endorse positive possible selves as current, but more likely to endorse negative possible selves as current, probable, desired, and important. Participants with BPD linked negative and positive selves to their desired selves, which is consistent with the unstable sense of self characteristic of BPD. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 62: 387,394, 2006. [source] Lost and found possible selves: Goals, development, and well-beingNEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 114 2007Laura A. King How do the goals we once cherished but can no longer pursue relate to maturity? [source] Reaching for the future: The education-focused possible selves of low-income mothersNEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 114 2007Shawna J. Lee This chapter describes the educational possible selves of low-income mothers as they make the transition from welfare to work. [source] Gender and possible selvesNEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 114 2007Hilary M. Lips This chapter discusses the ways in which societies' gendered expectations may affect the possible selves that women and men develop. [source] |