Paper Title
Self-esteem, self-presentation, and future Interaction: A dilemma of reputation
Keywords
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Presentation
- Reputation Management
- Future Interaction
- Compensatory Self-Enhancement
- Public Feedback
- Personality Assessment
- Social Behavior
- Self-Description
- Behavioral Conformity
- Chronic Self-Esteem
- Experimental Feedback
- Social Perception
- Identity Negotiation
- Psychological Influence
- Reputation Effects
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 50 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 29-45
Published On
March, 1982
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Abstract
The influence of chronic self-esteem on self-presentation was explored. Male subjects were confronted with an experimentally created reputation, in the form of public (bogus) feedback from a personality assessment. High self-esteem subjects used compensatory self-enhancement in their self-descriptions and behaved in ways contrary to what their reputations would imply. Low self-esteem subjects did not employ compensatory self-enhancement. Moreover, the behavior of low self-esteem subjects conformed to the randomly generated feedback when it (the feedback) was public but not when it was confidential. The expectation of future interaction was shown to be a mediating variable.
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