The relationship of global self-esteem to the self-enhancement and self-consistency motives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Webb, William Michael
Other Authors:	Rholes, William S. (degree committee member.), Sell, Jane A. (degree committee member.), Wood, Wendy L. (degree committee member.)
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	1988.
Subjects:	Self-esteem. Self-evaluation. Self-perception. Major psychology. Academic theses
Online Access:	Link to ProQuest copy Link to OAKTrust copy ProQuest, Abstract

Description
Abstract:	This study was designed to demonstrate that global self-esteem moderates reactions to violations of self-expectancies. Aronson & Carlsmith (1962) found that subjects whose low performance expectancies were disconfirmed by positive performance feedback, responded by performing worse on a subsequent identical task. This has been, termed a strong consistency effect. Further, subjects whose low performance expectancies were confirmed by low performance feedback failed to improve their performance when given the opportunity on a subsequent identical task. This has been termed a modest consistency effect. These findings support self-consistency theory but run counter to the predictions of self-enhancement theory. To the extent that global self-esteem moderates the need for self-enhancement, the strong consistency effect and the modest consistency effect should be found only for subjects with low global self-esteem. Subjects identified as high or low on Rosenberg's (1965) Self-Esteem Scale participated on a replication of Aronson and Carlsmith's study. Results showed that subjects with low self-esteem always responded in a self-enhancing fashion while a modest consistency effect was found for subjects with high self-esteem.
Item Description:	"Major subject: Psychology." Typescript (photocopy). Vita.
Physical Description:	vi, 71 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.