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5136.6 Self-descriptions: Comparison to gifted young students, excellent students and normal
students in China, Yan Kong 1 , Willy Peters 2 , Theo Bergen 2 , Jan van Leeuwe 2 , Franz J Monks 2 ,
1 2
China, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Spontaneous self-descriptions reveal dimensions in terms of which people tend spontaneously to
think of themselves. This study examines whether three groups of 490 samples including 164
gifted young students, 156 excellent students and 170 normal students distinguish in self-concept.
Who Am I Scale, a familiar open-ended test was taken. The statistical results clarify those three
groups of students have their common attributes as well as their self-concept, which indicates they
concern the growth of inner self and inherent traits more than their social and interpersonal
relationship, and there is an increase on the scale of self-criticism, especially gifted young
students.
5136.7 Predicting stability of personal goals: An one-year longitudinal study with Chinese
college students, Natalie H. H. Hui, Ling K.L. Hang, Michael Harris Bond, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, China
Personal goals have been well-studied in the past decade (e.g. Emmons, 1986, 1989; Little, 1989;
Omodei & Wearing, 1990), however very few studies up-to-date have addressed the issue of their
stabilities. The present longitudinal study aimed at filling this research gap by examining the
variability of five different types of personal goals (i.e., personal growth, academic achievement,
affiliation, intimacy and power) among Chinese college students. Beliefs, values and personality
were shown as significant predictors of the stability of personal goals, especially for academic
achievement and affiliation goals. Patterns of variations in personal goals across the SARS period
were also studied.
5136.8 Implicit theories, temperament and risk taking, Kinga Lachowicz-Tabaczek,
Magorzata Gamian,University of Wrocow, Poland
Present study tested mechanism of behavior regulation by implicit theories about fixedness versus
malleability of human attributes. This function of both theories is portrayed in two models of
behavior regulation in which naive theories are treated as factor, which allows fulfilling
temperamental resources. Therefore it was assumed that incremental theorists are more likely to
take risk than entity theorists do. A sample of 108 students played a game in which they could win
or loose money. Results showed that entity theorists risk less money or even resigned from the
game, while incremental theorists were much more engaged in taking risk.
5137 ORAL
Social psychology
Chair: Erping Wang, China
5137.1 The microgroup conception of small group, Andrey Sidorenkov, Rostov State
University, psychology faculty, Russian Federation
The idea of the conception consists in the investigation of group social-psychological processes by
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