Patrick Heather, Neighbors Clayton, Knee C Raymond
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2004 Apr;30(4):501-14. doi: 10.1177/0146167203261891.
Two studies examined contingent self-esteem (CSE) and responses to appearance-related social comparisons. Study 1 was an experimental study in which women rated a series of advertisements from popular women's magazines. Study 2 employed an event-contingent diary recording procedure. In Study 1, women who were higher in CSE and lower in self-perceptions of attractiveness (SPA) experienced greater decreases in positive affect and greater increases in negative affect following the ad-rating task. Study 2 results supported a mediation model in which women who were higher in CSE felt worse after social comparisons because they made primarily upward comparisons. Overall, results suggest that appearance-related comparisons are more distressing for those who base their self-worth on contingencies and have lower self-perceived attractiveness.
两项研究考察了条件自尊（CSE）以及对与外貌相关的社会比较的反应。研究1是一项实验研究，其中女性对一系列流行女性杂志上的广告进行评分。研究2采用了事件条件日记记录程序。在研究1中，CSE较高且自我吸引力感知（SPA）较低的女性在广告评分任务后，积极情绪的下降幅度更大，消极情绪的增加幅度也更大。研究2的结果支持了一个中介模型，即CSE较高的女性在社会比较后感觉更糟，因为她们主要进行向上比较。总体而言，结果表明，对于那些将自我价值建立在条件基础上且自我感知吸引力较低的人来说，与外貌相关的比较更令人苦恼。
