Self-pluralism: Assessment end relations to adjustment, life changes, and age

Individuals differ in the degree to which they see themselves as behaving a nd feeling similarly or differently in different situations and at differen t times. This dimension of the self-concept, which is conceived to extend f rom strong constancy of the self-concept at one extreme to marked variabili ty at the opposite pole, is designated as self-pluralism. An inventory for the assessment of degree of self-pluralism-the Self-Pluralism Scale (SPS)-i s presented, and the correlations of this scale with other relevant persona lity measures are reported. Several studies utilizing the SPS are presented . The results indicate that self-pluralism is negatively related to psychol ogical adjustment, positively related to long-term real-life variability, a nd negatively related to age.