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#895 Naomi de Ruiter - Toward a Process Approach in Psychology: Stepping into Heraclitus' River

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In psychology, self-esteem is often viewed through trait self-esteem and state self-esteem. Trait self-esteem is considered the underlying, stable entity that determines behavior and generates scores in questionnaires, while state self-esteem is seen as the variability around the true baseline level of self-esteem. Psychologists assume that individuals have a true score for trait self-esteem, and variation in state self-esteem is attributed to measurement error or context noise. State self-esteem is believed to influence how individuals feel accepted or rejected in their social surroundings, with the context pushing or pulling self-esteem above or below the baseline. Researchers often calculate the average of state self-esteem variations to estimate the true score, instead of examining the intrinsic dynamics of state self-esteem as a separate process from trait self-esteem.

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