From Compensatory Consumption to Adaptive Consumption: The Role of Self-Acceptance in Resolving Self-Deficits

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo Kim ◽  
David Gal
Keyword(s):  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Compensatory Consumption

scholarly journals The role of the group type and the characteristics of self-attitude in students’ social perception

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
M.V. Baleva
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Group Type ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mediating Factor ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Ingroup Favoritism

The article deals with the problem of disparate studies in social perceptions of different types of groups, which impede the understanding of its fundamental mechanisms. Different types of social groups appear in the research as stimulus descriptions of their artificial analogues, singled out according to ethnic, ideological and stratification criteria. As a mediating factor of social perception, the features of subject’s self-attitude (self-acceptance and self-rejection) are considered. The study involved 307 females and 109 males from 17 to 22 years old (M = 18.92, SD = 0.93). It was found that perceiving of different types of social groups determines the varying degrees of stereotyping and bias intensity. Both of these phenomena are most observable for the groups identified by stratification criterion. Ingroup favoritism is also more conspicuous for the subject’s “ideological” ingroup in comparison with the groups of different types. It was also shown that self-attitude plays a facilitating role in the manifestations of ingroup favoritism: both self-acceptance and self-rejection contribute to the growth of perceptional bias, but do not “participate” in outgroup stereotyping.

Cynthia Ozick: Diverse Functions of Transitional Objects in Fiction

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Leo Schneiderman
Keyword(s):  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Total Absorption ◽  
Transitional Objects ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Cynthia Ozick ◽  
Love Relationships ◽  
Human Love ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Trusting Relationships

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of transitional love objects in the lives of fictional adults, as depicted in the works of Cynthia Ozick. Ozick's protagonists are characterized by their symbiotic attachment to parent figures with whom they are unable to establish empathic and trusting relationships. In lieu of finding nurturance Ozick's fictional characters go in search of idealized love objects in the form of fetishes or idols, i.e., objects seeming to possess magical trustworthiness. Ozick warns against the choice of such narcissistically-determined, idolatrous objects, and extends her caveat even to human love relationships, with the implication that they are likely to prove disappointing. All of Ozick's fictional love objects represent partially differentiated, fetishistic extensions of the lover's self. These objects include a modern-day golem, idols, demons, witches, a tree, a shawl, and even a literary manuscript. Ozick clarifies the distinction between healthy self-love and self-acceptance and total absorption in the fetish as a soothing, symbolic substitute for satisfying unfulfilled developmental needs.

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