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Contingencies of Self-Worth, Academic Failure, and Goal Pursuit
- Source :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 33:1503-1517
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- Two studies examine the effects of failure on explicit and implicit self-esteem, affect, and self-presentation goals as a function of people's trait self-esteem and academic contingency of self-worth. Study 1 shows that participants with low self-esteem (LSE) who receive failure feedback experience lower state self-esteem, less positive affect, and less desire to be perceived as competent the more they base self-worth on academics. In contrast, participants with high self-esteem (HSE) who strongly base self-worth on academics show a slight boost in state self-esteem and desire to be perceived as competent following failure. Study 2 shows that following failure, academically contingent LSE participants downplay the importance of appearing competent to others and associate themselves with failure on an implicit level. Taken together, these findings suggest that academically contingent HSE people show resilience following failure, whereas academically contingent LSE people experience negative outcomes and disengage from the pursuit of competence self-presentation goals.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Michigan
Adolescent
Social Psychology
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New York
Intention
Affect (psychology)
Developmental psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Self worth
Function (engineering)
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Motivation
Social Identification
Self-esteem
Goal pursuit
Self Concept
Affect
Trait
Educational Status
Female
Psychological resilience
Contingency
Psychology
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15527433 and 01461672
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....92e26b4e8301d26c5f4bf84e2034d095