Who Am I? Let Me Think: Assessing the Considered Self-Concept

Griffo, Robert; Lemay, Edward P.; Moreno, Amanda H.

doi:10.1177/21582440211004278

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“…Students with ASD are highly likely to have limited trait term vocabulary, limited awareness of their own psychological traits, and difficulty recognizing and explaining cause-effect relationships between their traits and their actions. 17 , 47 , 81 …”

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Nature and Effects of Autobiographical Memory Issues in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Westby¹

2022

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This comprehensive thematic review focuses on autobiographical memory (AM) in individuals with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the overarching aim of informing and instructing stakeholders on this important memory structure that is often compromised in individuals with ASD. Accordingly, articles that best address the theme were selected from legitimate publishers with prime peer-reviewed journals. ASD is recognized as a neurodevelopmental disorder, often impacting on many aspects of language, cognitive, and social-emotional development. Considerable research has documented the problems children and adults with ASD frequently exhibit in language and its offshoots, the development of executive function, and theory of mind or the ability to reflect on the thoughts and feelings of self and others. These studies resulted in numerous assessments and intervention strategies designed to target the noted issues, among them problems with AM. Specialists in a variety of medical, psychological, and educational fields are exploring the nature and development of AM across the lifespan and the effects of AM weaknesses on cognitive and social-emotional factors such as self-regulation, social interactions, and self-identity. Researchers are reporting on the nature of AM deficits in persons with ASD and how AM deficits interact with or may explain other difficulties exhibited by these persons, but to date, little of this research has been incorporated into assessment and intervention strategies for persons with ASD. The aims of this article are to: 1. Describe the nature of AM, 2. Expound on assessments of AM, 3. Explain the effects of deficits in AMs on the personal narratives, self-regulation, and self-identity of persons with ASD, and 4. Explore intervention strategies to facilitate AM and the abilities of persons with ASD to tell coherent personal narratives.

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“…Students with ASD often lack the necessary language and vocabulary for these tasks or find the tasks too abstract. Griffo et al 2021 81 developed the My Multiple Selves (MMS) trait assessment that leads respondents to systematically explore who they are. They propose a set of probes to get students to think about their traits.…”

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Nature and Effects of Autobiographical Memory Issues in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Westby¹

2022

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“…It is difficult and expensive to collect large response sets, especially longitudinally. The trend of tweaking the "Who-am-I" format continues; in 2021 another extension of the TST was proposed (Griffo et al, 2021). This extended instrument demonstrated there are aspects of identity that do not come immediately to mind and therefore are underrepresented in TST results.…”

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A Dataset for the Study of Identity at Scale: Annual Prevalence of American Twitter Users with specified Token in their Profile Bio - 2015-2020

Jones¹

2021

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Personally expressed identity is who or what an individual themselves says they are, and it should be studied at scale. At scale means with data on millions of individuals, which is newly available and comes timestamped and geocoded. This work introduces a dataset for the study of identity at scale and describes the method for collecting and aggregating such data. Further, tools and theory for working with the data are presented. A demonstration analysis provides evidence that personal, individual development and changing cultural norms can be observed with these data and methods.

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“…The Twenty Statement Test (TST) 31 assesses the content of the self by asking participants to freely provide up to 20 responses to the prompt “I am __ __.” In a review of the self-content literature 32 , among eight studies that used the TST in various countries—including India, Japan, Kenya, and USA—the average proportion of participants’ personality traits was 26.6% (range = 0-58%), whereas that of their social/collective attributes was 28.9% (range = 1-84%). Furthermore, two studies 32,33 documented that the TST overestimates the proportion of traits in the self-concept. For example, one of those studies 32 compared the TST with the Writing About Yourself (WAY) task in which participants are provided with a single sheet of blank paper labeled “Writing about Yourself” and asked to write one or more paragraphs about themselves.…”

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Neural Representation of The Self

Levorsen

Aoki

Matsumoto

et al. 2022

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Knowledge about one’s personality, the self-concept, shapes human experience. Social cognitive neuroscience has made strides addressing the question of where and how the self is represented in the brain. The answer, however, remains elusive. We conducted two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments (with the second being preregistered) employing a self-reference task with a broad range of attributes and carrying out a searchlight representational similarity analysis. The importance of attributes to self-identity was represented in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), whereas mPFC activation was unrelated both to self-descriptiveness of attributes (Experiments 1-2) and importance of attributes to a friend’s self-identity (Experiment 2). Our research provides a comprehensive answer to the abovementioned question: The self-concept is conceptualized in terms of self-importance and represented in the mPFC.

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Who Am I? Let Me Think: Assessing the Considered Self-Concept

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Nature and Effects of Autobiographical Memory Issues in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Nature and Effects of Autobiographical Memory Issues in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Dataset for the Study of Identity at Scale: Annual Prevalence of American Twitter Users with specified Token in their Profile Bio - 2015-2020

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