Learning theory and the self concept.

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A conception of the self concept which is based upon contemporary reinforcement theory is sketched. "In an empirical exploration of the theoretical approach, relationships were set up in which variables derived from children's self-descriptions figured as links between indices of parental behavior and the children's social status among their peers." The results of this study showed that children's ideal-self concepts were found to be as similar to the ideal-child concepts held by randomly selected parents as to the ideal-child concepts held by their own parents. For boys, ideal-self dependency and self-concept modeling are positively correlated with an index of parental reward for similarity to the father. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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