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The status-signaling property of self-esteem: the role of self-reported self-esteem and perceived self-esteem in personality judgments.
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Objective: The provision of information appears to be an important feature of self‐esteem. The present studies examined whether self‐esteem possesses a status‐signaling property such that an individual's level of self‐esteem is associated with how the individual is perceived by others. Method: In Study 1, trained judges watched brief videos of 157 participants and rated targets as having higher levels of self‐esteem when the targets were believed to possess more positive personality characteristics. Study 2 found that participants (357 targets) were rated as having higher levels of self‐esteem when they were given more positive personality evaluations by their friends and family members (1,615 perceivers). Results: Consistent with the proposed status‐signaling model, high levels of self‐esteem were generally associated with the perception of positive personality characteristics. Conclusions: These findings are discussed in the context of an extended informational model of self‐esteem consisting of both the status‐tracking and status‐signaling properties of self‐esteem.
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ISE might have a status-signaling function.
“and also that ISE might have status-signaling function, which would be in line with a self-broadcasting perspective on selfesteem (Swann, Chang-Schneider, & McClarty, 2007; Zeigler-Hill, Besser, Myers, Southard, & Malkin, 2013).”
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The Conclusion (p. 10) says the studies are consistent with self-esteem having a status-signaling property. But the paper examines self-reported and perceived self-esteem, not implicit self-esteem (ISE), so it does not establish that the proposed function applies specifically to ISE. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zeigler‐Hill, V., Besser, A., Myers, E. M., Southard, A. C., & Malkin, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Oakland University (US)
- Sapir Academic College Israel
- Western Carolina University (US)
- University of Southern Mississippi (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zeigler‐Hill, Virgil
- ORCID
- Zeigler‐Hill, Virgil
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-02-05
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 209-220
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W2151907985
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 7
- FWCI
- 5.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi) (submittedVersion)
- 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, status signaling, status tracking, personality judgment, social perception, interpersonal perception, positive personality traits
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Hierarchy, Social, Humans, Judgment, Male, Models, Psychological, Personality, Self Concept
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