Like Napoleon, I have experienced the movement of the Holy Spirit in my life guiding and inspiring me in ways that I would not have thought of, so Its not only ego strength that moves one to do great things.

Many thanks,

Debra

Dear Seyed, 

Ego strength is not an unchangeable concept but to me it seems to be a good topic: 

Article The Relationship Of Psychotherapist Ego-Strength And Behavio...

Article Changes in ego strength in patients with neurotic and person...

Article The Mediational Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strateg...

Article The Effect of Ego Strength and School Adjustment on the Life...

Article Delayed Ego Strength Development in Opioid Dependent Adolesc...

Dear Mehdi,

IMO your friend is likely to learn a lot more about how human psychology works by staying completely away from the ideas of Freud, and building new hypotheses from the works of socio-biologists, primatologists and anthropologists, coupled with the new findings from brain-mapping research, for example, that has recently demonstrated that ALL decisions made by humans involve (are mapped-to) the emotional centers of the brain ... which is only one of several recent and exciting discoveries that give new insights into human psychology. Freud is a dead-end.

There is some pertinent discussion and links, here:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/In_your_daily_decisions_do_you_rely_more_on_logic_or_emotion

Best regards,

Bob

Dear Dr. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist,

Thanks a lot for your attention, time, beneficial answer and prolific articles that you introduce.

Regards,

Mehdi

Dear Prof. Bob Skiles,

Your respond is highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mehdi

Cognitive construction and manipulation of ego strength, emotional stability, coping, competence, self-efficacy, hardiness, self-regulation.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://people.socsci.tau.ac.il/mu/galsheppes/files/2014/10/2011-3.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjGzLWy0-rLAhWIA44KHdgqBoY4PBAWCBowAA&usg=AFQjCNE5pLNJXooMU1e2BNxs4Kl0lTQI7w

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://nuweb9.neu.edu/personalitylab/wp-content/uploads/BlockKremen.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjGzLWy0-rLAhWIA44KHdgqBoY4PBAWCD0wCA&usg=AFQjCNE0kgq-3SxR_ABfWZ_xbBUOmf33yA

I can not directly answer on whether the above stated topic is appropriate or worth researching. A thorough literature review is needed to see if there is a gap or a need for further research in a particular topic. The following related studies might help you:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4500814/

http://archive.is/aK7Vn

http://spl.stanford.edu/pdfs/2008/Ochsner.pdf

http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/garnefski___kraai_j__spinhoven_2001.pdf

http://media.leidenuniv.nl/legacy/garnefski___kraaij_2007.pdf

Dear Prof. Krishnan Umachandran,

Many thanks for your comprehensive guidance and the links that you shared.

Regards,

Mehdi

Dear Dr. Napoleon Ono Imaah,

Your respond is highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mehdi

Dear Romer Castillo,

Thanks for your valuable comment and useful links.

Regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Dear all,

I agree with Dr. Krishnan Umachandran.

Like Napoleon, I have experienced the movement of the Holy Spirit in my life guiding and inspiring me in ways that I would not have thought of, so Its not only ego strength that moves one to do great things.

Many thanks,

Debra

See these articles..

Article Further evidence on the Ego Strength Scale as a measure of p...

Article Ego strength and health: An empiric study in hemodialysis patients

Self-control is a central function of the self and an important key to success in life. The exertion of self-control appears to depend on a limited resource. Just as a muscle gets tired from exertion, acts of self-control cause short-term impairments (ego depletion) in subsequent self-control, even on unrelated tasks. Research has supported the strength model in the domains of eating, drinking, spending, sexuality, intelligent thought, making choices, and interpersonal behavior. Motivational or framing factors can temporarily block the deleterious effects of being in a state of ego depletion. Blood glucose is an important component of the energy.

http://medind.nic.in/daa/t12/i2/daat12i2p279.pdf

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/16/6/351.abstract

Dear Seyed Mehdi Mohammadizadeh,

Emotions - mental process of regulating impulsive behavior, based on the requirement of the sensual reflection of the importance of external influences, their favorable or harm to the individual life.

Emotions emerged as adaptive "product" of evolution, biological organisms generalized behaviors in typical situations. "It is because of emotions body is extremely beneficial adapted to environmental conditions, since he did not even determine the form, the type of mechanism and other parameters of influence can to salvage the speed to respond to him a certain emotional state, that is, to determine the useful or harmful given to him concrete impact." 

Person act only when there is a sense of action. Emotions are inherently formed and these detectors senses. Cognitive processes form a mental image, emotional - oriented selective behavior.

Regards, Shafagat

ego strength

(in psychotherapy) the ability to maintain the ego by a cluster of traits that together contribute to good mental health. The traits usually considered important include tolerance of the pain of loss, disappointment, shame, or guilt; forgiveness of those who have caused an injury, with feelings of compassion rather than anger and retaliation; acceptance of substitutes and ability to defer gratification; persistence and perseverance in the pursuit of goals; openness, flexibility, and creativity in learning to adapt; and vitality and power in the activities of life. The psychiatric prognosis for a client correlates positively with ego strength.

I would not call ego strength self-control. 

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ego+strength

Human beings are sensitive there have a feeling in their heart as our birth biological reason but every movement of our body when we see when we see our mother earth we observe that it is a play of our creator.

The sound of a first CRY of the child as a rhythm as inside in  it & first CRY create in the mind of mother with the inner feeling of joy ,pleasure & happiness which becomes the thread of LOVE & EMOTION for the arrival of the CHILD.

Emotion is not to be regulated & it cannot be measured with the instrument as it is tuning of our heart .This emotion if it runs various place of our life ,it creates a problem of LOVE,SENTIMENT ,FEELINGS & very often it may create the WORRIES ,TENSION & FRUSTRATION .

Emotion remains the basic roots & when this emotion takes a shape of Emotion & sentiment feelings with the inner silent of CRY the best remedial for every human being is to take a recourse of prayer irrespective of caste,Creed & Religion 

This is my personal opinion 

Dear All.

It is the mathematicians who said that: "The nature of God is like a Circle; the Center is both the subjective and objective universes ever discovered by man; where the Circumference is, nobody knows." It is the scientists who said that: embedded in the human brain is an Ability (Strength) of which man is not fully using one-millionth part of it. The true descriptive term for man is: HUMAN BEING. This term details as follows:

HU - The Universal Name of God

MAN - The Mind

BE - Exist

ING - Continuously (Without reference to time)

This translate thus: GOD in MAN Existing Eternally.

Majority of efforts at trying to study man have mostly looked through lenses that see man as an animal. But very soon, new findings will start showing up in public domain, revealing better understanding of man. Man once possessed this understanding, but have become lost to the Atlantis and Lemurian eras, and even eras of time before these two. There is something about the makeup of man we need to understand and that is: Man is a Spiritual Entity wearing five bodies (coverings). These bodies are, starting with the one we know:

1. Physical Body - (Manifestations: Human flesh-&-blood)

2. Astral Body - (Manifestations: Emotions, love, anger, sentiments)

3. Causal Body - (Manifestations: Memory, recollections, images)

4. Mental Body - (Manifestations: Intellectualism, ideas, concepts)

5. Etheric Body - (Manifestations: Instincts and primitivity)

Then finally the:

6. Spirit Self (The-True-Man) - (Manifestations: Inner Nudges, Inner Guidance)

It is good to know that each of this body as worn by man corresponds to different worlds of existences. In the thread "What inspires architects to create masterpieces in Architecture to the Dead - Mausaleums; and what makes mausoleums massive tourist attractions?" by Napoleon Ono Imaah, I made mention of Karma and Reincarnation. The Spirit Self coming from the Astral world picks up a physical body at birth and drops it at death after a life-time on earth. It is good to know that the Spirit Self (The-True-Man) came all the way from the Spirit world, down into the Etheric world, down into the Mental world, down into the Causal world, down into the Astral world, and finally down into the Physical world, picking up the respective bodies as It enters each world. This happened over millions of incarnations and reincarnations. The reason why man has forgotten about his True Self is due to many lifetimes of aberrations in the Physical world. These aberrations revolve around the following passions of the mind: GREED; VANITY; ANGER; ATTACHMENT; and LUST. The opposites and correction for these passions of the mind are, respectively: CONTENTMENT; HUMILITY; FORGIVENESS; DETACHMENT; and DISCRIMINATION. Ego and Ego Strength derives from VANITY. Ego is really a negative quality in man. Consider the following definitions from the LINGOES digital dictionary:

Ego

- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

- your consciousness of your own identity

Ego Trip

- an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance

Egocentric

- a self-centered person with little regard for others

- limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

If a person full of ego is not allowed to have his ways, his emotions become Storms of Anger. We can see the type of strength that derive from ego. If this person dies in this life and reincarnates, he comes back with multiple aberrations, Anger being in the forefront. If we look at the whole scenario carefully, we will see that it is motivated by the DESIRE to be NOTICED or IMPORTANT. Some attempts to help these type of persons use regressive hypnotism. The following contributions to this thread are good references: @Bob Skiles; @Napoleon Ono Imaah; and @Debra Sharon Ferdinand, a classical experience.

Thanks All.

Gbenga Odukale

Vanity is not important for good mental health, at least if it is not consciously aknowledged but ego strength is vital for mental health in order to keep us oriented in the reality. 

Dear Dr. Debra Sharon Ferdinand,

Your respond is highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mehdi

Dear Dr. Brenda Jacono,

Thanks for your valuable comment and useful link.

Regards,

Mehdi

Dear Dr. Fateh Mebarek-Oudina,

Thanks for the valuable articles that you mentioned.

Regards

 Dear Dr. Subhash C. Kundu,

Thank you for your attention, time, perfect guidance and useful links that you mentioned.

Regards

Dear Dr. Barbara Sawicka,

Thanks for your respond.

Regards

Dear Dr. Shafagat Mahmudova,

Many thanks for your comprehensive respond.

Regards,

Mehdi

Dear Dr. Rohit M Parikh,

Your respond is highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mehdi

Dear Dr. Gbenga Odukale,

Many thanks for your attention, time and comprehensive respond.

Regards,

Mehdi

Dear Dr. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist,

I rejoiced when I see your answer. Thank you for your attention, time, perfect guidance and useful links.

Regards,

S. M. Mohammadizadeh

Thank you for your pleasant response!

Kindly

Béatrice M. 

Dear Mehdi,

In addition to the ample relevant material from Beatrice, I think it would be beneficial for your friend to look for a published work on Cognitive Emotion Regulation (if i am not wrong it was at Stanford and Columbia University, probably in 2008 or 2009. (pls excuse me, i dont have the same on my system right now, may be in  day or two i might be able to add the details). The report was basically on the neural systems interactions and emotion generation and emotion control.

regards

Dear Dr. Rathish Nair,

Thank you for your attention and advantageous guidance. If it is possible for you to send the details, I will wait for them.

Regards

attaching the publication i quoted earlier

thanks

rathish

Dr. Rathish Nair,

Thanks a lot for your contribution and publication that you shared. 

Sincerely,

Mehdi

By Internet research, I feel like that the scholars nowadays are really interested in ego strength with a special emphasis on how it can be correlated with other parameters like id, ego, and super-ego. Naturally, we have got to venture ahead of Freud so that we can get clearer picture of the progress made in the last 50 years or so. I think the sources I enlist below might help you.

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/1773/03Chapter3.pdf;jsessionid=654402D9B55CFD95F6A1DE2DBFCF9D23?sequence=6

https://repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/17042/31295005905939.pdf?sequence=1

Dear Arghya Ray ,

Thanks for your precious comment and prolific links that you mentioned.

Sincerely,

Mehdi

The conceptualization

• Alterations in the regulation of affective impulses, including difficulty with modulation of anger and self-destructiveness.
• Alterations in attention and consciousness leading to amnesias and dissociative episodes and depersonalization.
• Alterations in self perception, such as a chronic sense of guilt and responsibility, and ongoing feelings of intense shame.
• Alterations in perception of the perpetrator, including incorporation of his or her belief system.
• Alterations in relationship to others, such as not being able to trust and not being able to feel intimate with others.
• Somatization and/or medical problems.
• Alterations in systems of meaning

http://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dsamh/files/si10_1396_article1.pdf

Dear Prof. Krishnan Umachandran,

Your respond is highly appreciated. Also, thanks for article that you purposed.

Sincerely,

Mehdi

Dear All.

The contribution by @Arghya Ray is really a good and an insightful one. Efforts by persons to correlate ego-strength with id, ego, and super-ego might just be inclinations to know themselves better. Ego by its nature makes persons feel superior and the strength thereof makes persons feel them can control/do anything. Well, not until such persons run into situations that flatten them, do they come to UNDERSTAND that certain situations are beyond their ego-trip. Maybe then, a humble prayer in the public domain will start making sense to them: the prayer is:

God Grant Me The Serenity,

To Accept The Things I Cannot Change;

Courage To Change The Things I Can;

And Wisdom To Know The Difference.

The wisdom to know the difference is reflected by @Debra Sharon Ferdinand contribution.

More objectively, the only thing that is permanent is CHANGE. All knowledge had been gathered by ancient researchers who had observed things that change. Even man has changed from how he was 50 years ago, in understanding, temperament, memory characteristics, extra-terrestial encounters, and so on. It seems man has come to another frontier where new knowledge must be observed and gathered; such knowledge that will help man cope in the new era of time we are beginning to enter. Era of time as depicted in fictions like Star-Trek Series, Space-1999 Series and so on.

Based on spiritual science, man goes through four acts of realization in efforts to know himself better. They are:

1. Realization of the Human Consciousness:

This is the state in which one recognizes himself as the ego, the "I" and wants to improve his position in life whether it be materially or psychologically. This is very prominent at childhood, when a child who would walk about nakedly suddenly becomes uncomfortable doing so. There are other traces of this when children becomes teenagers, moving from junior to high schools or the desires to rise to top management positions.

2. Realization of the Psychic Consciousness:

This is the state in which one recognizes himself as something beyond the physical. This is observed at adulthood when man feels he must control and subdue things around him, even his fellow man.

3. Realization of Self:

This is the state in which he is able to have self-recognition or Self-realization. This is observed at instances a man is deemed to have become a saint. Man has come to know his True Self and has learned to tolerate his fellow man. A study of the lives of the saints might be helpful.

4. Realization of God:

This is the ultimate state of being. When one has reached this state he has gained total awareness. Man reaching this stage is very rare. They are what Isaac Newton or that inventor referred to as, "... standing on the shoulders of spiritual giants." They are mostly responsible for miracles beyond human understanding and gentle inner guidances.

So, ego strength is still at the fisrt act of realization. If humanity is ready to incorporate other acts of realization into helping man live more serenely, time will tell.

Thanks All.

Dear Dr. Gbenga Odukale,

Many thanks for your precious and comprehensive respond.

Regards

Here is a NIH publication on family and Ego and other sources I found in google scholar.  I hope these assist you.  Thank you for your question.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1792292

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/22/post_526_n_733200.html

http://www.bowentheory.com/thebowenfamilytheoryanditsusesc3cmhall.htm

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2012&q=family+and+ego+&hl=en&as_sdt=0,21

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Dear Dr. Rebecca Trocki ,

Your respond is highly appreciated.

Regards,

Mehdi