Add to ORKGIt has been suggested that self-esteem is a significant contributing variable in determining defensive behavior (Asch, 1948; Janis & Field, 1959; Lazarus & Longo, 1953; Rosenzweig, 1938; Sears, 1940). Several studies suggest that individuals of high and low self-ssteem (SE) manifest different patterns of response to the experience of success and failure (Altrochi, Parsons, & Dickoff, 1960; Stotland & Hillmer, 1962; Stotland, Thorley, Thomas, Cohen, & Zander, 1957). Further, Slock and Thomas (1955) and Altrochi, Parsons, and Dickoff (1960) have shown that persons with high SE tend to avoid threatening materials, while persons with low SE tend to approach and experience threatening materials. However, a coherent dynamic picture has yet to eme...
A study was conducted to test hypotheses derived from the empirical literature on self-esteem and de...
Some people argue that contingencies of self-worth are indispensable sources of motivation (Pyszczyn...
Three experiments were performed to examine the idea that a motive to protect self-esteem from the t...
The need to take into account the moderating effects of defen- \u27 siveness in understanding how sc...
ABSTRACT Why is it that many individuals verbally rationalize and distort self-esteem threatening in...
Long-standing theories have suggested high self-esteem (SE) can assume qualitatively different forms...
This article aimed at analytic examination of how people with different self-esteem types react to r...
Individuals with anxiety disorders maladaptively appraise interpersonal threat cues leading to inacc...
A good deal of research suggests that high self-esteem individuals cope with failure by engaging in ...
Much research has identified how people react to receiving threatening information about the self. T...
Defense styles refer to the characteristic employment of automatic psychological processes to mainta...
Traditionally, research has suggested that individuals with low self-esteem are more likely to aggre...
ing. Targets high or low in self-esteem and academic contingency receive failure test feedback or no...
In two studies we demonstrated that self-esteem has a negative relationship with schadenfreude towar...
that people respond to threatening feedback by engaging in a self-comparison process in which they u...
A study was conducted to test hypotheses derived from the empirical literature on self-esteem and de...
Some people argue that contingencies of self-worth are indispensable sources of motivation (Pyszczyn...
Three experiments were performed to examine the idea that a motive to protect self-esteem from the t...
The need to take into account the moderating effects of defen- \u27 siveness in understanding how sc...
ABSTRACT Why is it that many individuals verbally rationalize and distort self-esteem threatening in...
Long-standing theories have suggested high self-esteem (SE) can assume qualitatively different forms...
This article aimed at analytic examination of how people with different self-esteem types react to r...
Individuals with anxiety disorders maladaptively appraise interpersonal threat cues leading to inacc...
A good deal of research suggests that high self-esteem individuals cope with failure by engaging in ...
Much research has identified how people react to receiving threatening information about the self. T...
Defense styles refer to the characteristic employment of automatic psychological processes to mainta...
Traditionally, research has suggested that individuals with low self-esteem are more likely to aggre...
ing. Targets high or low in self-esteem and academic contingency receive failure test feedback or no...
In two studies we demonstrated that self-esteem has a negative relationship with schadenfreude towar...
that people respond to threatening feedback by engaging in a self-comparison process in which they u...
A study was conducted to test hypotheses derived from the empirical literature on self-esteem and de...
Some people argue that contingencies of self-worth are indispensable sources of motivation (Pyszczyn...
Three experiments were performed to examine the idea that a motive to protect self-esteem from the t...