Sammendrag
From the perspective that understanding the personal field within an organismic metaphor framework is insufficient and must be transcended, a theory of the person is developed. Three relational and inseparable developmental phases in becoming a person are identified as distinct and hierarchically inclusive of each other: They are ¾ dependency, independency and interdependency. In addition, the denial of the necessity for each of the first two phases to transcend itself and move to the next level is understood through the central concept of an internal negation. The interdependent relationship, including its own negative aspects of dependency and independency, is seen as having positive and sufficient qualities for developing a fully functioning personal field. In the context of these gross phases, human beings are viewed as being challenged to solve developmental tasks throughout their lives. Relational qualities dynamically change and transform in new and different situations including the potential for both regression to a lower stage as well as transcendence to a higher stage. A Q-methodological study empirically demonstrates the theory with the three developmental phases as effects, each explicated in two levels, creating an 8 cell Fisherian factorial design. Each cell contains 6 replications resulting in a sample of 48 sentences taken from the text of the theoretical chapters according to the categorical structure. The levels are: expectancy and control for dependency, contact and withdrawal for independency and action and mutuality for interdependency. The author and a colleague each sorted the sample according to 20 different conditions of instruction, including direct and meta-perspectives of themselves and each other. Q-factor analysis revealed that all effects operated in factor scores as hypothesized. Surprising differences between the sorters emerged, prompting dialogue and an intense search for ways to explicate the differences and create new understandings. Both singular and general propositions about the differentia were developed particularly
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