The Organizational Properties of the Self-Concept and Instability of Affect
dc.contributor.author | Stein, Karen Farchaus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-15T17:14:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-04-15T17:14:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1995-01-23 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Research in Nursing & Health, 1995, 10, 405-415 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69220> | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 0160-6891/95/050405-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69220 | |
dc.description.abstract | Affect instability, a core symptom of several major mental illnesses, contributes to high levels of subjective distress and impaired self-care abilities. The findings of previous studies have shown that, in asymptomatic samples, the organizational properties of the self-concept impact shortterm affect regulation. In this study, that work is extended to examine the association between the organizational properties of the self-concept and instability of affect in adults with a major mental illness. Subjects were 19 adults with a major mental illness (clinical) and 10 asymptomatic adults. Zajonc's card-sorting task was used to measure two organizational properties: (a) differentiation-the number of attributes included in the self-concept, and (b) unity-the degree of interdependence among the attributes. An experience sampling procedure was used to obtain 50 measures of affect across a 10-day period. The clinical group experienced more instability of negative affects than the asymptomatic group. Furthermore, the clinical group had lower differentiation and higher unity of the self-concept than the asymptomatic controls, although both organizational properties were related to education. In the total sample, differentiation was not related to instability of affect. Unity accounted for 21% of the variance in instability of negative affect. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1005404 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Inc | en_US |
dc.title | The Organizational Properties of the Self-Concept and Instability of Affect | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Nursing | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Nursing, School of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69220/1/The Organizational Properties of the Self-Concept and Instability of Affect.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | Research in Nursing & Health | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Nursing, School of |
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