The Construction of the Self: A Developmental Perspective - Hardcover

Harter, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572304324 ISBN 13: 9781572304321

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1999

Synopsis

How do children and adolescents see themselves, and how do their self-perceptions relate to their relationships with others? How do cognitive and social processes interact in the development of each person's unique sense of self? Drawing upon the author's decades of innovative research, this long-awaited volume traces the stages of self-development and examines how self-representations affect functioning across diverse domains. With special attention to gender and cultural variables, chapters cover such topics as pathways to low self-worth and depression; the effects of child abuse; conflict provoked by shifting roles and self- representations in adolescence; and the authenticity of the self. The concluding chapter covers interventions designed to promote adaptive self-evaluations.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Harter, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of Denver. Her research, supported by funds from NIH for over 20 years, has resulted in the construction of a lifespan battery of self-report instruments to tap dimensions of the self-concept. These instruments are currently in use throughout the United States and internationally. In addition, she has received two major faculty awards, University Lecturer of the Year and the John Evans Professorship Award, the highest award to be bestowed upon a faculty member. Both awards are for national and international recognition in one's chosen field of research. Dr. Harter has written numerous journal articles and chapters, including chapters on self-concept, self-esteem, as well as motivational and emotional development in the 1983 and 1998 Handbook of Child Psychology. She has also served on National Institute of Mental Health study sections, chaired the Cognition, Emotion, and Personality Committee, and currently is on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals, including Developmenal Psychology, Child Development, Psychological Bulletin, Development and Psychopathology, and American Educational Research Journal.

From the Back Cover

This book will surely become a classic in the field. Harter brings her extensive theoretical and empirical knowledge of the self to bear in this important volume. Her integration of theory and research, along with attention to the practical implications of this work, will make this book a valuable addition to the libraries of academicians as well as practitioners. I highly recommend this volume for use as a graduate text (Dante Cicchetti, PhD).

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1. Contemporary Issues and Historical Perspectives
2. The Normative Development of Self-Representations during Childhood
3. The Normative Development of Self-Representations during Adolescence
4. The Developmental Emergence of Self-Conscious Emotions
5. The Content, Valence, and Organization of Self-Evaluative Judgments
6. Discrepancies between Real and Ideal Self-Concepts
7. Social Sources of Individual Differences in Self-Evaluation
8. A Model of the Causes, Correlates, and Consequences of Global Self-Worth
9. The Authenticity of the Self
10. The Effects of Child Abuse on I-Self and Me-Self Processes
11. Autonomy and Connectedness as Dimensions of the Self
12. Interventions to Promote Adaptive Self-Evaluations

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572304324
• ISBN 13: 9781572304321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 413