ABSTRACT
Who am I? Being able to answer this question is widely assumed to be essential for healthy psychological functioning. A well-defined self-concept facilitates the processing of self-relevant information (Bargh, 1982), predicts life satisfaction (Jones, 2001) and psychological adjustment (Bigler, Neimeyer, & Brown, 2001; Campbell, Assenand, & Di Paula, 2003), leads to a sense of self-continuity (Gergen & Gergen, 1988), and is related to stability in evaluations of the self (Kernis & Waschull, 1995) and to high levels of self-esteem (e.g., Baumgardner, 1990; Campbell, 1990; Campbell, Trapnell, Heine, Katz, Lavallee, & Lehman, 1996).
