Study On Self Flexibility: Theory And Evidence

It is always a hot topic on the research of self psychology. This paper comes up with the concept of self-flexibility based on that self is regarded as the functional system of monitoring interactive process of “I” and “non-self”, and adopts the combination of questionnaires and experimental approach to make theoretical analysis and empirical research. The research aims at working out self-flexible questionnaires on the basis of building the self-flexible theory framework. Taking self-flexible questionnaires as a tool, the research combines it with the application of Snyder self-monitoring scale, self-focused attention scale and resilience scale for adults, makes a survey of 273 adults, and examines the general characteristics of adult self-flexibility and related factors. With self-flexible questionnaires, different levels of self-resilient subjects are screened out; cognitive decision tasks under frustration circumstances are carry out and then it proves that self-flexibility is an excellent psychological quality. According to the findings above, the author makes the following conclusions:(1)《Self-flexible questionnaires》includes 5 dimensions:peak experience, wonderful experience, secular life and monastic life, the self and the ego, and the multi-role of me, and the questionnaires show that the self-flexible theory of rationality itself.(2)《Self-flexible questionnaires》 has good reliability and validity, which can be regarded as adults’ effective tools of self- flexible evaluation.(3)There are significant differences in the levels of Self-flexibility with two variables including gender and age, namely female’s self-flexible is above male’s; the self-flexibility of subjects decreases with age. In the samples of the study, self-flexibility of adults has no significant difference in the one-child status and educational attainment.(4)The psychological concepts of self monitoring, self-focused attention and psychological resilience are closely related to self-flexibility, and the level of self monitoring, self-focused attention can predict the self-flexibility itself, among which the level of individual self-pour is the more important psychological variables to predict its self-flexibility. On the other hand, self-flexibility has more significant predictive effect on psychological resilience.(5)In the simulation experiments of frustration poured situation, self-flexibility variables have a significant impact on subjects of cognitive processing, the goal judgment, and high resilient individuals can better adjust the self-monitoring levels, reduce the disturbance of current tasks caused by self-wake, the result of mission operations is significantly better than low self-flexible individuals.