Kelly 2
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- Threat
- When anxiety involves anticipations of great changes to you core constucts
- Guilt
- When you do things that are not in keeping with your core constructs
- Development of personality
- Intense pressure or punishment leading to rigid attachment of constructs. Erratic parental behavior making prediction of the future difficult.
- Psychopathology
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Healthy - evaluate and revise their construction.
Sick - flawed construct system hanging on even though they are not valid - Definition of psychological disorder
- Any personal construction which is used in spite of consistent invalidations.
- Aim of psychotherapy
- To encorage patient to examin and reformat construct systems.
- Role Construct Repertory test
- A therapeutic tool used in therapy
- Fixed role therapy (Enactment)
- Have clients pretend thay are different people to explore different constructs
- Criticisms
- Limited empirical research, important spectos of personality neglected eg motivation, developmental, many unanswered questions
- Contributions
- The rep test. Theory is compatible with the interactionist position. Applied value in I/O settings.