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Assessing psychological conflict.

The British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

|February 1, 1975

Summary

This study introduces a computational method to quantify cognitive conflict by analyzing personal beliefs and attitudes. The approach utilizes Heider

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Computational Social Science
Psychometrics

Background:

Cognitive conflict arises from inconsistencies between beliefs, attitudes, and personal problems.
Existing methods for assessing cognitive conflict may not fully capture the complexity of individual belief systems.
Understanding cognitive conflict is crucial for various fields, including clinical psychology and decision-making research.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a novel computational method for assessing cognitive conflict.
To quantify the proportion of conflict within an individual's belief and attitude system.
To leverage cognitive balance theory to model and measure inter-personal and intra-personal conflicts.

Main Methods:

A large set of an individual's beliefs and attitudes related to personal problems were collected.
Subjects rated the direction and degree of their beliefs and attitudes.
A computer model, derived from Heider's cognitive balance theory, was used to calculate the proportion of conflict.

Main Results:

The developed method successfully quantified cognitive conflict based on subjective belief and attitude ratings.
The computational model provided a quantitative measure of conflict proportion within the assessed belief system.
The results demonstrate the feasibility of using computational approaches to assess complex psychological constructs.

Conclusions:

The proposed method offers a systematic and quantitative approach to assess cognitive conflict.
This computational framework can be applied to understand the dynamics of personal problems and decision-making.
Further research can explore the application of this method in diverse psychological and social contexts.

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