The shape of self-extension: Mapping the extended self with multidimensional scaling

• Published in: Personality and individual differences Vol. 126; pp. 25 - 32
• Main Authors: Hanley, Adam W., Baker, Anne K., Hanley, Robert T., Garland, Eric L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2018; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adults; Mapping; Multidimensional scaling; Personality; Psychology; Race; Self; Self-extension; Well-being; Well-being; Self; Multidimensional scaling; Self-extension

This exploratory study examined the three domains of self-extension proposed by William James' Constituents of Self — the psychological, social, and material domains. A novel analytic method, Multidimensional Scaling (MDS-T), was used to represent the structure of James' self-extension dom...