Self-experience consistency and life satisfaction: The mediating role of the need for relatedness and the moderating role of Zhong-yong thinking

Self-experience consistency and life satisfaction

Self-consistency, one of the most important concepts in Rogers’s personality theory (1959), refers to coordination within and between the self and experience and reflects the degree to which the self reasonably expects experience. If an individual experiences a gap between themself and their own experience, a state of disharmony results (Nye, 1996). Prior studies have demonstrated a close relationship between self-experience consistency and mental health (Liu et al., 2018). Self-experience consistency shows a negative association with…