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life goals: Seize the Day: Achieving Goals through Re-invention of Your Self-Concept - 10/15/09 05:34 PM
The Chicken or the Egg? Which comes first?
Self-concept (or self-schema) is far more important than given credit for. It is often believed that what we accomplish determines how we feel about ourselves, but it is quite possible the opposite is true.
Clinical Study Findings:
In an 8-week clinical intervention study with 29 cocaine and opioid-dependent clients, Avants, Beitel, and Margolin (2005) found a correlation between a shift in self-schema and drug use and other HIV risk behaviors. The self-schema (the specific beliefs about the self) of addicted individuals was found to be extremely negative, consisting of words such as "selfish, … (16 comments)

 
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