Haan / Lykken Coping and Defending

Processes of Self-Environment Organization
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6327-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Web PDF

Coping and Defending: Processes of Self-Environment Organization investigates coping and defending within the context of personal-social psychology, with emphasis on processes of self-environment organization. Topics range from ego and stress to personality theory, family, and child rearing. Comprised of 13 chapters, this book begins with a discussion on theories and conceptualizations of ego, paying particular attention to its logical constraints as state; the neomechanical personal man; rational choice; and continuity and discontinuity in states. Subsequent chapters explore coping, defense, and fragmentation as ego processes; immanent value in personality theory; problems and perspectives in investigating ego processes; and the interregulation between structures and ego processes. The next section is largely devoted to empirically based findings concerning the development of ego processing; the link between stress and processing; and processing in families. The final chapter describes research aimed at developing and improving coping and defense scales based on personality inventories. This monograph will be of interest to developmentalists, cognitivists, personologists, clinicians, and social psychologists, as well as sociologists and perhaps anthropologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haan, Norma

Lykken, David T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Coping and Defending: Processes of
Self-Environment Organization;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;Acknowledgments;14
7;Chapter 1. Preview;16
8;Chapter 2. Past Definitions of Ego;25
8.1;Freud's Main View of Ego;25
8.2;Freud's Second View of Ego;27
8.3;Formulations of the Positive Ego and Its Development;27
8.4;Piaget's View of Ego;30
9;Chapter 3. Conceptualizations of Ego: State and Entity;32
9.1;Competence as an Example of Ego State;33
9.2;Logical Constraints of Ego as State;34
9.3;Neomechanical Personal Man;34
9.4;Role of Rational Choice;36
9.5;Hierarchy and Organization;38
9.6;The Question of Development;40
9.7;Discontinuity and Continuity in States;43
9.8;Applicability across Time and Cultures;44
9.9;Summary of Arguments in Regard to Ego as State;46
10;Chapter 4. Conceptualizations of Ego: Processes, Functions, Regulations;48
10.1;Ego Processes: Coping, Defense, and Fragmentation;49
10.2;The Logical Constraints of Ego as Processes;57
10.3;Constructionist Man;58
10.4;The Place of Rational Choice;60
10.5;Hierarchy and Organization;62
10.6;The Question of Development;69
10.7;Continuity and Discontinuity;73
10.8;Across Time and Cultures;75
11;Chapter 5. Immanent Value in Personality Theory;79
11.1;Is a Value Choice Inevitable for the Personality Theorist?;82
11.2;Goals as Criteria for Immanent Value in Personality Theory;84
11.3;Criteria for Choosing Values in Personality Theory;86
11.4;Examination of Various Utopian Personalities;87
12;Chapter 6. Investigating Ego Processes: Problems and Perspectives;99
12.1;The Nature of Research Verification;99
12.2;Observing Processes;100
12.3;Methodology of Studying Processes;109
12.4;Areas of Application;112
13;Chapter 7. Configurations of Ego Processes and Cognitive and Moral Structures;115
13.1;Coordination of Processes and Structures;115
13.2;Background of Previous Empirical Work;119
13.3;The Cognitivists' View of Personality and Structures;122
13.4;Empirical Analyses;124
13.5;Conclusion;142
14;Chapter 8. The Development of Ego Processes;144
14.1;The Structures' Empowerment of Ego Process Development;144
14.2;The Question of a Developmental Taxonomy;148
14.3;Empirical Description of the Development of Ego Processing;153
14.4;Conclusion;169
15;Chapter 9. Stress and Ego Processing;171
15.1;The Difficulties of Stress Research;172
15.2;The Uses of the Word Coping in Stress Research;177
15.3;Empirically Based Understandings about the Processing of Stress;180
15.4;The Ego Process Model and Stress;182
15.5;Empirical Studies;190
15.6;Conclusion;208
16;Chapter 10. The Family, Ego Processes, and Child Rearing;209
16.1;Past Formulations of the Meanings of Families to Children;210
16.2;Family Interaction from the Ego Process View;219
16.3;Empirical Findings;229
16.4;Conclusion;253
17;Chapter 11. Implications, Limitations, and Perspectives;257
17.1;Suggestions for Evaluating This Work;257
17.2;Implications;258
17.3;Limitations and Perspectives;262
18;Chapter 12. The Haan Model of Ego Functioning: An Assessment of Empirical Research;265
18.1;Introduction;265
18.2;Studies Employing Ego Ratings;266
18.3;Studies Using Empirically Derived Scales;277
18.4;Theoretical Implications;286
18.5;Methodological Problems and Research Lacunae;291
19;Chapter 13. Paper and Pencil Measures of Coping and Defense Processes;295
19.1;Method;296
19.2;Results;298
19.3;Discussion;309
20;Appendix A. Procedures of Ego Rating;314
20.1;Preliminary Instructions;314
20.2;Definitions of Ego Processes;315
21;Appendix B. Q Sort of Ego Processes: Coping and Defense;324
21.1;Item Listing;324
22;Appendix C;330
23;Appendix D;336
24;Appendix E;340
25;References;348
26;Subject Index;358