The relational self: an interpersonal social-cognitive theory.

By Susan Andersen, Serena Chen. Psychology Review, 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The What, How, Why, and Where of Self-Construal (2011, background): “Andersen’s (Andersen & Chen, 2002) theory of relational selves also focuses on specific relationships and on individuals’ distinctive and persistent ways of interacting in particular relationships.”
What Have We Learned That Is Critical in Understanding Leadership Perceptions and Leader-Performance Relations? (2014, background): “Because individuals can influence these structures in others (Andersen & Chen, 2002), information processing perspectives allow scholars to understand the indirect effects of leadership in terms of their momentary or cumulative effects on such structures at either individual or group levels of…”
Relationships, Human Behavior, and Psychological Science (2004, background): “…of significant others from one’s past may affect one’s inferences, recollections, evaluations, and feelings about a new acquaintance when the new acquaintance resembles the significant other (and thereby activates mental schemas associated with the preexisting relationship; Andersen & Chen, 2002).”
Personality development: stability and change. (2005, background): “Trait-correlated anticipatory attitudes lead individuals to project particular interpretations onto new social relationships, and individuals transfer trait-correlated affective responses developed in the context of previous relationships to new relationships (Andersen & Chen 2002).”
Significant Others and the Self (2002, methodology): “Our approach to the self and self-regulation is grounded in our interpersonal socialcognitive theory of the self, which draws on social-cognitive, personality, and clinical theory (Andersen & Chen, 2001).”
The True Self and Psychological Health: Emerging Evidence and Future Directions (2011, neutral): “…true self seems to conflict with the wealth of theoretical (e.g., Baumiester, 1995; Cooley, 1902; James, 1890; Sullivan, 1953) and empirical (e.g., Andersen & Chen, 2002; Darley & Fazio, 1980; Drigotas, Rusbult, Wieselquist, & Whitton, 1999; Murray, Holmes, & & Griffin, 1996) evidence that points…”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, methodology): “Absent from Gaertner and colleagues' research was consideration of the motivational status of the relational self (Andersen & Chen, 2002; Chen et al., 2006).”
Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self: Hierarchical Ordering of the Tripartite Self (2011, background): “In addition, close relationships influence perceptions, affective reactions, and behaviors toward new acquaintances, as well as goal pursuit (Andersen and Chen 2002; Sedikides et al. 1993; Tice and Baumeister 2001).”
Relational Leadership Theory: Exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing (2006, background): “This work focuses on social self-concept—the extent to which individuals define themselves in terms of their relationships to others (Andersen and Chen, 2002; Brewer and Gardner, 1996; Lord et al., 1999).”
Approaching math increases math=me and math=pleasant. (2008, background): “Many theorists have noted that the self-concept is a social entity—it changes according to the people and stimuli in its environment ( Anderson & Chen, 2002; Kawakami et al., submitted for publication; Markus & Kunda, 1986).”
Leadership Processes and Follower Self-identity (2003, background): “Andersen and Chen (2002) extended this same idea to the effects of significant others on self-regulation by positing that the activation from significant others spreads to a companion self-with-significant-other representation that guides behavior.”
Sibling support in early adolescence: Buffering and compensation across relationships (2005, background): “In addition, recent work based on cognitive schema theory suggests that an individual may construct relationship expectations based on various exemplars of the relationship category rather than on a single prototypic relationship (Andersen & Chen, 2002; Smith & Zarate, 1992).”