1LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Psychol Sci. 2013 Jul 1;24(7):1142-50. doi: 10.1177/0956797612467466. Epub 2013 May 8.
Do men base their self-worth on relationships less than do women? In an assessment of lay beliefs, men and women alike indicated that men are less reliant on relationships as a source of self-worth than are women (Study 1). Yet relationships may make a different important contribution to the self-esteem of men. Men reported basing their self-esteem on their own relationship status (whether or not they were in a relationship) more than did women, and this link was statistically mediated by the perceived importance of relationships as a source of social standing (Studies 1 and 2). Finally, when relationship status was threatened, men displayed increased social-standing concerns, whereas women displayed increased interdependence concerns (Study 3). Together, these findings demonstrate that both men and women rely on relationships for self-worth, but that they derive self-esteem from relationships in different ways.
男性的自我价值感是否不如女性那么依赖于人际关系？在对大众观念的评估中，男性和女性都表示，男性对人际关系作为自我价值来源的依赖程度不如女性（研究 1）。然而，人际关系可能对男性的自尊有不同的重要贡献。男性报告说，他们的自尊心更多地基于自己的关系状况（无论他们是否处于一段关系中），而女性则较少，这种联系在统计学上受到人际关系作为社会地位来源的重要性的中介作用（研究 1 和 2）。最后，当关系状况受到威胁时，男性表现出更多的社会地位关注，而女性则表现出更多的相互依赖关注（研究 3）。总的来说，这些发现表明，男性和女性都依赖人际关系来获得自我价值感，但他们从人际关系中获得自尊的方式不同。
