What is the basis of self-discrepancy theory?
A. examining strategies people use to attain, maintain, and regulate a desired level of self-esteem
B. linking emotional outcome to the distance between a person's actual self and that same person's ought and ideal selves
C. understanding the process of how a person directs and guides her- or himself toward a desired state
D. recognizing that an ideal self results from the intersection of the actual and ought selves in a given person's identity
Answer: B
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