What Is the Basis of Self-Discrepancy Theory

question 33

Multiple Choice

What is the basis of self-discrepancy theory?

• A) examining strategies people use to attain, maintain, and regulate a desired level of self-esteem
• B) linking emotional outcome to the distance between a person's actual self and that same person's ought and ideal selves
• C) understanding the process of how a person directs and guides her- or himself toward a desired state
• D) recognizing that an ideal self results from the intersection of the actual and ought selves in a given person's identity

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