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Quantitative personality models of self-concept structures that contain multidimensional and dynamic components developed from theories about personality and individual differences (Showers 1992)
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The self-concept is contextualized. Research on personality and individual differences have attempted to quantitatively model how self-concepts are structured differently among individuals. One model includes the evaluative organization of self-knowledge. This model has demonstrated that some individuals organize their self-concepts into primarily positive or negative valence, while others are organized with both positive and negative self-concepts. This model demonstrated the complexity and dynamics of personality and individual differences.
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Fundamentally, self-concept structures are individual beliefs about self-knowledge that emerge and are self-organized according to...
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Durham, J., Limke-McLean, A. (2019). Evaluative Organization. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1940-1
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