摘要：background We studied the relationships of self-discrepancies with private and public self-consciousness.It was postulated that private self-consciousness is more strongly related to actual–ideal discrepancy than to actual–ought discrepancy,and that the latter is more strongly related to public self-consciousness.participants and procedure The sample consisted of 71 students aged 19-25,who completed the Self-Consciousness Scale and the DRP proce_dure for measuring self-discrepancies.results The results did not confirm the hypotheses,but revealed a correlation between actual–ideal discrepancy and social anxiety.It also turned out that private self-consciousness negatively correlates with the time of rating ideal-self at?tributes and positively with the time of rating ought-self attributes.conclusions Self-consciousness may be related not so much to the size of self-discrepancies as to the accessibility of the content of each self-standard.The results are also consistent with the sequence of studies that challenge the central thesis of Higgins’s theory concerning the specific relationship be?tween actual-ought discrepancy and anxiety.
