The Self Between Cacophony and Monologue: A Conceptualization and Empirical Examination of Dialogical Complexity

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2016.1219892" target="_blank" >10.1080/10720537.2016.1219892</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Self Between Cacophony and Monologue: A Conceptualization and Empirical Examination of Dialogical Complexity

Original language description

Theory of dialogical self distinguishes between cacophonous, monological, and dialogical structure of the self. So far these structures have not been examined within systematic quantitative studies. Focusing on this issue, we conceptualized the three structures as degrees on a dimension of dialogical complexity. To assess dialogical complexity, we proposed a numerical index derived from the personal position repertoire and examined it empirically. We compared the index of dialogical complexity with indices of cognitive complexity (derived from the repertory grid technique), integrative complexity, and presence of dialogical relationships in narratives (both derived from the thematic apperception test). In our sample of a total of 60 nonclinical respondents, the index of dialogical complexity was not correlated with cognitive complexity. It was weakly negatively but significantly correlated with integrative complexity. Respondents who yielded a higher score of dialogical relationships in narratives formed the dialogical structure of the self according to the dialogical complexity index. Respondents who yielded less dialogical relationships in narratives obtained a wider range of dialogical complexity scores that indicated more cacophonous or monological structures. We conclude that the relationships with integrative complexity and with presence of dialogical relationships in narratives support the original conceptualization of dialogical complexity. However, due to limitations of the study, the results are not decisive, and further examination of dialogical complexity including clinical samples is needed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

ISSN

1072-0537

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

270-294

UT code for WoS article

000400245600004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84986200991