Ideal image
The ideal image generally indicates a person, a thing or something abstract that something in particular completely , invented or formvollendet represent (for example, the ideal image of a woman, a well, a society); it stands in contrast to given imperfect or in terms of form not perfect , real persons, things or abstracts .
In a more special, psychological sense, the ideal image, like the self-image, belongs to the so - called self - concept of a person and describes a person's ideas about how they would like to be or how others would like them to be. Both terms play z. B. in the concept of client-centered therapy by Carl Rogers an important role. Discrepancies between the two images are characteristic of certain disorders - reducing the discrepancy between self-image and ideal image is a therapy goal.
This discrepancy between self-image and ideal image can be measured with the help of the so-called personality Q-Sort , where statements (given on cards) are to be sorted according to the degree of accuracy according to how one assesses oneself (self-image) and once according to how one likes want to be (ideal). The difference can be derived directly from this in the form of a correspondence value.
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- ↑ See Duden online: Idealbild .
- ↑ from Psychological Diagnostics by Krohne and Hock