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Research has shown that individuals who have a more discrepant sense of self are at greater risk of poor mental health outcomes, with different domains associated with different outcomes. For example, discrepancy from the ideal self is associated with dejection-related emotional responses including shame, as well as diagnoses of depression. And discrepancy from the ought self is associated with agitation-related emotions including guilt, as well as diagnoses of anxiety (Higgins et al., 1985; Strauman & Higgins, 1987). Recent research has extended the investigation of self-discrepancy to the field of traumatic stress, identifying greater ideal and ought self-discrepancies following trauma exposure in those with PTSD than without (Sutherland & Bryant, 2008). Given support for the role of self-discrepancy across a range of mental health disorders and its key role in the Litz et al. (2009) conceptual model of moral injury, this study seeks to examine how self-discrepancy is related to moral distress. Moral distress is associated with symptoms including guilt, shame, anger, anhedonia, social alienation, avoidance, and withdrawal, overlapping to some extent with symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Based on findings from the depression, anxiety, and PTSD literature we expect to find a relationship between moral distress and self-discrepancy across all domains. |
