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psychopathology, as measured by the SCL-90-R, among 48 clients from the Psychology Clinic
at the University of North Texas.
The literature review presents a history of the interpersonal decentering concept, covering
Piaget's approach to cognitive development, Feffer's extension of Piaget's decentering concept
to the interpersonal realm, and the subsequent extension of the decentering concept to
interpersonal aspects of symptomatic behavior. Methods of measuring interpersonal decentering
are also reviewed.
Piaget's Approach to Cognitive Development
Piaget (1950) viewed cognitive abilities as tools for gaining and organizing information
about the environment and about oneself in relation to the environment. Furthermore, he
regarded cognitive functioning as consisting of a relationship between subject and object. He
proposed that individuals construct the world along certain principles of organization and such
constructions are expressive of particular equilibrium relationships between subject and object.
Within Piaget's theory of cognitive development, increases in cognitive abilities over time are
considered to coincide with gradual shifts in perspective, providing qualitative change from one
stage (or "type") of thinking to another. These stages represent different forms of equilibrium,
each successive stage tending toward a more stable, more adaptive type of thinking and more
balanced relationship between subject and object.
Cognition is considered to reflect greater maturity to the degree that immediate sensory
perceptions are subordinated to conceptual thought in organizing experience. Mature,
conceptual thought is associated with increasing ability to form internalized, abstract
representations of environmental objects or situations. The structuring of the environment
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Burkman, Summer D. Interpersonal Decentering and Psychopathology in a University Clinic Sample, thesis, May 2008; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6130/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .