By providing an opportunity for self-expression, music facilitates the reproduction and transformation of identities established in individual. Having understanding possible musical self residing within existing self-concept can help us make sense time energy required to become a musician. The present study attempts understand qualities or characteristics musicians use describe their selves. sa...

This study examined the relations of the salience and elaboration of gay and straight possible selves to subjective well-being (SWB) and ego development (ED) in a sample of 107 gay men and lesbians, who wrote narrative descriptions of their straight and gay best possible selves and rated the salience of these narratives (i.e., the clarity of the mental image, how easy it was to imagine). Indepe...

The idea that the self is temporal and that the future-oriented components of the self are critical to understanding well-being can be traced to William James (1890/1950), who proposed that the selves we strive to become focus motivational attention, guide behavior, and are an important source of positive selfregard. James proposed that the future, as represented by one’s self-relevant goals fo...

This study sought to explore the contribution of the self-concept to older women's adherence to regular mammography screening behavior. The PRECEDE and health belief model concepts were incorporated with a measure of the women's future selves to determine whether the self-concept adds to our ability to predict screening. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 210 community-dwelling ...

Adolescents are in the developmental stage of transition from childhood to adulthood, a stage during which they claim certain identities in favor of others and the resultant configuration of possible selves (Erikson, 1968, 1980; Marcia, 1966, 1980). The longterm studies of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) and the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey have reported that adolescent alcohol use is th...