Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Cogn Emot. 2021 Mar;35(2):375-384. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1822296. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
People are motivated to acquire self-evaluative information that favours themselves () or information that confirms their present self-views (). We proposed that participants' naïve theories characterising self-esteem as important may moderate their self-enhancement motivations. Across three samples, we demonstrated that increasing self-esteem importance causes prevention-based emotional reactions to become increasingly dependent on the favorability of feedback. We thus infer that self-enhancement motivation increases when people hold favourable beliefs about the importance of maximising self-esteem. We also replicated past findings in which people regard positive (versus negative) self-relevant information as more valid when they have high (versus low) self-esteem, revealing self-consistency. Individual differences in self-esteem importance and trait self-esteem thus play distinct roles in shaping people's enhancement and consistency motivations.
人们有动力获取对自己有利的自我评价信息（）或证实他们现有自我观念的信息（）。我们提出，参与者关于自尊重要性的朴素理论可能会调节他们的自我提升动机。在三个样本中，我们证明了自尊心重要性的增加导致基于预防的情绪反应越来越依赖于反馈的有利程度。因此，我们推断，当人们对最大化自尊的重要性持有有利的信念时，自我提升的动机就会增加。我们还复制了过去的发现，即当人们的自尊心高（相对于低）时，他们会认为积极（相对于消极）的与自我相关的信息更有效，这揭示了自我一致性。因此，自尊心重要性和特质自尊心的个体差异在塑造人们的提升和一致性动机方面起着不同的作用。
