Tuesday, May 13, 2014

2) Carl Roger's Humanistic Personality Theory


Roger's humanistic personality theory emphasize the importance of self-actualizing tendency in forming a self-concept.
Roger also believed that human react with continuous changing process for a person to develop self-concept through continuous feedback from the environment. However, development of self concept, positive regard is the key factor. Human being also develop ideal self and a real self based on the conditional status of positive regard. The difference between the ideal self and real self is called "congruity". Meanwhile fully functioning people can achieve "the good life" in which they constantly aim to fulfill their potential and allow their personalities to emanate from their experiences.


Self-Actualization
Rogers rejected the deterministic nature of both psychoanalysis and behaviorism and maintained that we behave as we do because of the way we perceive our situation.
"As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves."
Self-actualization occurs when a person’s “ideal self” (i.e. who they would like to be) is congruent with their actual behavior (self-image).  Rogers describes an individual who is actualizing as a fully functioning person. The main determinant of whether we will become self-actualized is childhood experience.
 























The Good Life

Rogers described life in terms of principles rather than stages of development. These principles existed in fluid processes rather than static states. He claimed that a fully functioning person would continually aim to fulfill his/her potential at each of these processes, achieving what he called the good life. These people would allow personality and self-concept to emanate from experience. He found that fully functioning individuals had several traits or tendencies in common:
1.    Growing openness to experiences and a lack of defensiveness toward anything new.
2.    Increasingly existential lifestyle in which each moment is appreciated and lived to its fullest.
3.    Preponderance for organismic trust of their own judgments and choices.
4.    Greater freedom of choice and a lack of personal restrictions or rules.
5.    Higher levels of creativity and adaptability without necessarily conforming.
6.    Extreme reliability and constructiveness in their dealings with others.

7.    Tendency toward rich, full lives with exciting and intense experiences.

The humanistic approach states that the self is composed of concepts unique to individual self.
The self-concept includes three components
1) Self worth
2) Self-image
3) Ideal self



























Conclusion

Roger supports Maslow's need theory. He agreed that to become self actualization stage an individual has to cross all the other needs.
Roger believed that Self-actualization occurs when a person’s “ideal self” (i.e. who they would like to be) is congruent with their actual behavior (self-image).  Rogers describes an individual who is actualizing as a fully functioning person. The main determinant of whether we will become self-actualized is childhood experience.
Therefore the person to become a fully functioning person he need have ideal self congruent with his self image.


































References

https://www.boundless.com/psychology/personality/the-humanistic-perspective/rogers-theory/


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