The relation between acceptance of self and acceptance of others shown by three personality inventories.

Abstract

In recent years psychiatrists and clinical psychologists have observed a relation between the attitude toward the self shown by the patient and his attitude toward other people, Adler [1] noted a depreciation of others in those who themselves felt inferior. Horney [5] asserted that the person who does not love himself is incapable of loving others. Rogers [8] said that the person who accepts himself will for that very reason have better interpersonal relations with others. He also observed that, during therapy, as a person begins to accept himself he becomes capable of experiencing this attitude toward others. Changes in acceptance of the self and correlated changes in the acceptance of others occurring during clientcentered therapy were studied by Sheerer [9]. Her study, and a similar one by Stock [10] also based on a small number of counseling cases, showed that perceptions of others, feelings toward others, and acceptance of others are significantly related to the perception of the self, feelings about the self, and acceptance of the self. These studies show that, in the course of therapy, with the increase in self-acceptan ce there is a corresponding increase in favorable attitude toward others. Several attempts have been made to see to what extent these observations made by clini

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