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Social Psych: self, identity and meaning making - Coggle Diagram

- - - - global beliefs: goals, beliefs, sense of purpose
  - - - 5 categories of meaning making
        
        horizontal self transendence
        
        vertical self transcendence
        
        but Sinnot et al (2023) say spirituality not always protective!
        
        Order (routines, principles, morality)
        
        wellbeing and relatedness
        
        self-actualisation
- - - - we are multifaceted and multiplicitous
      - builds on Nietzsche and Foucalt
      - screw identity, conduct yourself in own aesthetic style
  - - - social anxiety -> self focused attention
        
        once self-focused, use the internally generated information to construct an impression of themselves as a social object
        
        Ingram (1990) defines as: ‘‘an awareness of self-referent, internally generated information’’
        
        Duval and Wicklund (1972) theory of objective self awareness
        
        subjective- (field perspective) and objective (observer perspective) self awareness
  - - - cybernetic theory of self-regulation
        
        self-awareness not always neg
        
        self-focus is a feedback cycle helps resolve discrepancy between actual self and standard
        
        self efficacy (Bandura, 1991) matters, and distress only when discrepancy can't be resolved
      - for social anxiety: self-awareness may highlight discrepancy between ideal and actual self
  - - - meta-analysis of self-enhancement in narcs
        
        narcissists self-enhanced their agentic attributes more than their communal attributes
    - - narcissism is self-regulatory social strategies to maintain inflated self esteem
      - narcissism is a continuum not a category in social psych. Therefor studies on traits may not capture "clinical" narcissists
    - - three narc personality features
        
        extroverted narc
        
        antagonistic narc
        
        neurotic narc
      - antagonistic narc - > mental health stigma (Foster et al., 2022)
        
        moral threat
  - - - persecutory deluded patients suffer
        from underlying negative self-schemata
        
        protect self through externalising attribution bias
    - - hostile attribution bias in schizophrenia
        
        Pinkham et al (2014)
        
        hostile attribution bias is the tendency to interpret others’ actions as intention and hostile rather than object of chance, accidental or benevolent intention (Pinkham et al., 2014)
    - - source monitoring issues leads to external attributions for internally generated material
    - - Meta anal: poorer self-recognition performance in psychotic patients. even worse with auditory hallucinations
    - - insight into disorder increases risk of suicide
      - Individualised Metacognitive Intervention (MCT+)
        
        improves MEANING MAKING!!!! (Park, 2010; Schnell, 2010)
        
        emphasises cognitive biases are universal
        
        blends elements of CBT and MCT
      - not all negative feelings about psychosis
    - - personal account of SZD as disturbance of self and existential permeability
    - - recovery is a personal journey, not an end point
      - people with psychosis describe recovery as finding self-coherence and personal meaning that allows for hope and restoration of personal dignity
        
        describe recovery as finding a sense of self coherence and
- - - - underrepresented in use of psychiatric services
      - many asian british men do not feel ties to UK or to home country
  - - - ego development in middle adolescence predicts intimacy in emerging adulthood
        
        yay for Erik Erikson's theory (1968)
        
        needs multicultural replication (Bornstein, 2002)