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Self-esteem, self-presentation, and future interaction: A dilemma of reputation

Baumeister, Roy F.·1982·Journal of Personality
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1982.tb00743.x
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The influence of chronic self-esteem on self-presentation was explored. Male subjects were confronted with an experimentally created reputation, in the form of public (bogus) feedback from a personality assessment. High self-esteem subjects used compensatory self-enhancement in their self-descriptions and behaved in ways contrary to what their reputations would imply. Low self-esteem subjects did not employ compensatory self-enhancement. Moreover, the behavior of low self-esteem subjects conformed to the randomly generated feedback when it (the feedback) was public but not when it was confidential. The expectation of future interaction was shown to be a mediating variable.

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  • When faced with threats to the self, such as failure or social rejection, adults exhibit compensatory behaviors that help them buffer and enhance their self-views.

    “When faced with threats to the self, such as feedback of failure or social rejection, adults exhibit compensatory behaviors that help them buffer and enhance their self-views (4–6).”

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  • Healthy adults maintain inherently positive or inflated self-views and report having more positive and less negative attributes than others (above average effect).

    “These findings align with previous work positing that healthy adults maintain inherently positive or inflated self-views (4, 32) and report having more positive and less negative attributes than others, known as the “above average effect” (6, 33).”

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Authors
Baumeister, R. F.
Affiliations
Case Western Reserve University (US)
Corresponding author
Baumeister, Roy F.
ORCID
Baumeister, Roy F.
Venue
Journal of Personality
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1982-03
Volume
50
Issue
1
Pages
29-45
ISSN
  • 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-6494
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1982.tb00743.x
OpenAlex
W2081045695
Cited by
247
References
15
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 12237 d)
Locations
Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords
self-esteem, self-presentation, reputation, citizen feedback, personality assessment, conformity, self-description

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