Decreased Self-Concept Clarity in People with Schizophrenia

Self-Concept Clarity and the Foot-in-the-Door Procedure

The deceptively simple foot-in-the-door technique is the oldest and most widely researched of the sequential-request compliance procedures investigated by social psychologists. Since its introduction by Freedman and Fraser (1966), the procedure has been examined in more than a hundred published studies and has been the topic of several reviews and meta-analyses (Beaman, Cole, Preston, Klentz, &...

Self-Concept Clarity and Self-Esteem in Adolescence: Associations with Psychological, Behavioral, and Academic Adjustment

Participation of People With Schizophrenia in Everyday Life: Family’s Perspective

Objectives: People with chronic mental health condition like schizophrenia experience a lot of changes in their lives, in addition to their symptoms. The present study used a thematic analysis to explore the participation of people with schizophrenia in daily life from family’s perspective. It has uncovered some of the contributing factors in the everyday life participation of this group.  Met...

Stability of self-concept in schizophrenia.

This study was to investigate the stability of self-concept in nonchronic, nonparanoid schizophrenics. Self-Concept, Health-Concept, and Food-Preference questionnaires were administered to 84 Ss. Schizophrenics and controls were divided into failure and nonfailure groups (N = 21 per group). Test-retest method with failure or neutral condition immediately preceding the 2nd testing showed schizop...

the relationship between self-esteem and sexual self-concept in people with physical-motor disabilities

conclusions lack of difference in self-esteem of disabled people in different degrees of disability and in both men and women suggests that disabled people should not be presumed to have low self-esteem, and their different aspects of life should be attended to, just like others. furthermore, studies should be designed and implemented based on psychological, social and environmental factors tha...