Definition
Conditions of worth are circumstances when “self-experience is avoided (or sought) solely because it is less (or more) worthy of self-regard” (Rogers 1959, p. 224). A condition of worth is acquired when the conditional regard of a significant other has been assimilated into one’s own self-regard complex, such that self-experience is valued positively or negatively solely because these conditions of worth have been taken over from others and not because the experience enhances or fails to enhance ones’ organism (Rogers 1959, see p. 209).
Introduction
Rogers (1959) constructed a theory of the development of personality and the dynamics of behavior in relation to the perception of an individual as they appear in therapy. According to Rogers’ client-centered framework (reprinted with permission from “The Rogerian fully functioning person: A positive psychology perspective” by Proctor,...
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Proctor, C. (2017). Conditions of Worth (Rogers). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1459-1
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