14 manic-depressive patients, 16 staff and 52 college students described their normal self, their ideal self, and their least-liked self in terms of certain personality traits. The emotion profile for the depressed state correlated highly with the least-liked self, but the manic profile did not correlate with any other description. Data suggest that ideal-self studies are basically concerned with social stereotypes.
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