Asymmetry and Defense in Self-Comparison: Differential Reactions to Feedback About the Rejected and Ideal Selves
| Autor: | Michael R. Leippe, Donna Eisenstadt, Jennifer A. Rivers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Self and Identity. 1:289-311 |
| ISSN: | 1529-8876 1529-8868 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15298860290106797 |
| Popis: | This research extended Eisenstadt and Leippe's (1994) self-comparison model by examining acceptance and rejection of self-discrepant feedback and the consequences for the broader self-concept. According to the model, individuals should be more vulnerable to low-importance feedback. College students received bogus feedback about an important or unimportant, ideal or rejected trait, and rated the self-descriptiveness of that and other traits. Participants evinced greater and faster resistance to high-importance (vs. low-importance) feedback. Participants were especially susceptible to unimportant rejected feedback, but compensated by increasing the positivity of ratings on non-feedback traits. In contrast, participants resisted important rejected feedback, but evinced deflated positivity on other traits. Judgments were asymmetrical: Rejected feedback and nonfeedback traits were judged as less self-descriptive and were rated more quickly than actual or ideal traits, suggestive of defensive avoidance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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