1 / 6

Social comparison and the development of meaning

Increase awareness among coaches of social comparison among clients, encourage questions to raise client awareness. Clear sense of purpose and value hindered by excessive social comparison. Help clients differentiate themselves and clarify their purpose in social contexts.

janniet
Download Presentation

Social comparison and the development of meaning

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. NZPsS conference 2012 Presented by Sam Farmer Steve Dakin Sanna Malinen Social comparison and the development of meaning

  2. Objectives • Increase awareness among coaches of the prevalence of social comparison among their clients • To encourage the development of questions to increase the awareness of social comparison among clients.

  3. Background (1) • The goal of logo-coaching is to support clients to a clear sense of purpose; a clear sense of how they add value in their work, life, family, any social context. • Social comparison is ubiquitous in our lives – people habitually value themselves in comparison to others. • There are three primary forms of social comparison: • Competition, where people want to be better than others • Cooperation, where people want to submerge themselves in group identity • Conformity, where people want to model themselves on (be the same as) others

  4. Background (2) • A clear sense of purpose is blocked by excessive social comparison • Social comparison locks people into an undifferentiated social space which makes it difficult for them to see clearly how they can add value in that social context. • By helping people to appreciate the power of social comparison in their lives, they may be able to differentiate themselves sufficiently to clarify their purpose in that setting

  5. Cases • Mini cases for illustration

  6. Thanks for your attention & participation! For a copy of the paper, please email: Steve - steve@hrsd.co.nz Sanna – sanna.malinen@canterbury.ac.nz

More Related