McGregor Ian, Marigold Denise C
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003 Nov;85(5):838-52. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.5.838.
In Studies 1-3, undergraduates with high self-esteem (HSEs) reacted to personal uncertainty-threats with compensatory conviction about unrelated issues and aspects of the self. In Study 1 HSEs reacted to salience of personal dilemmas with increased implicit conviction about self-definition. In Study 2 they reacted to the same uncertainty-threat with increased explicit conviction about social issues. In Study 3, HSEs (particularly defensive HSEs, i.e., with low implicit self-esteem; C. H. Jordan, S. J. Spencer, & M. P. Zanna, 2003) reacted to uncertainty about a personal relationship with compensatory conviction about social issues. For HSEs in Study 4, expressing convictions about social issues decreased subjective salience of dilemma-related uncertainties that were not related to the social issues. Compensatory conviction is viewed as a mode of repression, akin to reaction formation, that helps keep unwanted thoughts out of awareness.
在研究1 - 3中，高自尊的大学生（HSEs）面对个人不确定性威胁时，会对无关问题和自我方面产生补偿性信念。在研究1中，高自尊者对个人困境的凸显做出反应，对自我定义的隐性信念增强。在研究2中，他们对同样的不确定性威胁做出反应，对社会问题的显性信念增强。在研究3中，高自尊者（尤其是防御性高自尊者，即隐性自尊较低者；C. H. 乔丹、S. J. 斯宾塞和M. P. 赞纳，2003）面对个人关系的不确定性时，会对社会问题产生补偿性信念。在研究4中，对于高自尊者而言，表达对社会问题的信念会降低与困境相关但与社会问题无关的不确定性的主观凸显性。补偿性信念被视为一种压抑方式，类似于反向形成，有助于将 unwanted 想法排除在意识之外。 （注：原文中“unwanted”未翻译完整，可能是文档录入问题，推测完整单词可能是“unwanted”，意为“ unwanted”）
