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Self‐esteem, self‐presentation, and future Interaction: A dilemma of reputation
Author(s) -
Baumeister Roy F.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1982.tb00743.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , reputation , self esteem , social psychology , self concept , medicine , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology , radiology
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.