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Rejection Sensitivity Moderates the Impact of Rejection on Self-Concept Clarity

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Ayduk, Özlem, Gyurak, Anett, Luerssen, Anna·2009·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
DOI 10.1177/0146167209343969PMC PMC4184908
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Self-concept clarity (SCC) refers to the extent to which self-knowledge is clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and temporally stable. Research shows that SCC can be undermined by failures in valued goal domains. Because preventing rejection is an important self-relevant goal for people high in rejection sensitivity (RS), it is hypothesized here that failures to attain this goal would cause them to experience diminished SCC. Study 1, an experimental study, showed that high-RS people’s SCC was undermined following rejection but not following an aversive experience unrelated to rejection. Study 2, a daily diary study of couples in relationships, used occurrence of partner conflicts to operationalize rejection. Replicating the findings in Study 1, having a conflict on any given diary day predicted a greater reduction in the SCC of high- compared to low-RS people on the following day. The implications for understanding the conditions under which rejection negatively affects the self-concept are discussed.

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  • Individuals with lower self-concept clarity are more susceptible to higher levels of rejection sensitivity and have greater sensitivity to negative external evaluations.

    “Previous research has indicated that individuals with lower levels of self-concept clarity are more susceptible to higher levels of rejection sensitivity and have greater sensitivity to negative external evaluations [20].”

    From Self-Concept Clarity and Loneliness among College Students: The Chain-Mediating Effect of Fear of Negative Evaluation and Self-Disclosure (2024) · cites this paper as [20]

    Study 1’s Discussion reports that people high in rejection sensitivity had lower self-concept clarity after rejection. This supports a conditional link between the two, but the paper studies rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability to reduced clarity—not lower clarity as making people more rejection-sensitive. It also does not establish greater sensitivity to negative external evaluations generally. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Fear of negative evaluation is influenced by self-concept clarity.

    “Besides, fear of negative evaluation is influenced by self-concept clarity. Individuals with lower self-concept clarity tend to be more sensitive to negative evaluations and feedback in social situations [20].”

    From Self-Concept Clarity and Loneliness among College Students: The Chain-Mediating Effect of Fear of Negative Evaluation and Self-Disclosure (2024) · cites this paper as [20]

    The Abstract and General Discussion (pages unavailable) examine the opposite direction: rejection or conflict reduces self-concept clarity, particularly among people high in rejection sensitivity. Searches for fear of negative evaluation and for lower self-concept clarity predicting sensitivity to negative feedback found no passage addressing the claimed influence. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Ayduk, Ö., Gyurak, A., & Luerssen, A.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Ayduk, Özlem
ORCID
Venue
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2009-08-27
Volume
35
Issue
11
Pages
1467-1478
ISSN
  • 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-7433
DOI
10.1177/0146167209343969
PMC
PMC4184908
OpenAlex
W2118328800
Cited by
88
References
12
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FWCI
4.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5t32mh020006-19)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH020006), R01MH069703, MH0697043)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
rejection sensitivity, self-concept clarity, rejection, self-relevance, self-knowledge, couple conflict, couples, moderation
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Conflict, Psychological, Defense Mechanisms, Depression, Female, Goals, Humans, Identity Crisis, Internal-External Control, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Object Attachment, Personality Inventory, Rejection, Psychology, Self Concept, Social Identification, Young Adult

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