Regulacyjna wartość emocji wstydu w procesie kształtowania się tożsamości

• Authors: Tomasz Czub , Anna Izabela Brzezińska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the paper we present a draft of a model capturing the relationship between shame and the identity development process. We discuss two main concepts of shame: shame as an adaptive emotion, according to the evolutionary approach, and as a maladaptive emotion, according to the cognitive attribution theory. Our main thesis states that shame has an essential, both constructive and maladaptive importance for identity development, and this effect is indirect, through the mechanisms of regulating emotions. The destructive and disrupting value of shame is not an immanent feature of this emotion, but a consequence of malfunctioning mechanisms of shame regulation. The association of shame with identity formation relates to the dimensions of exploration: in breadth, in depth and ruminative, as well as to commitment making and identification with commitment. People with a high level of shame proneness are more sensitive to information and assessment coming from signifi cant others from their nearest social environment and more self-critical. This may contribute to the increasing discrepancy or dissonance between the possessed and the desired or socially expected identity. This may also activate mechanisms of identity change and affect its relative stability.

Keywords

PL

dorastanie; eksploracja; zobowiązanie; status tożsamości; doświadczanie wstydu; skłonność do wstydu; regulacja emocji; środowisko społeczne

EN

adolescence; exploration; commitment; identity status; experience of the shame; shame proneness; emotional regulation; social environment

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Psychologia Rozwojowa
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27–42

Dates

published

2013

online

2013-08-25

Contributors

author

Tomasz Czub

author

Anna Izabela Brzezińska

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843879PR.13.002.1014