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Self-image
About: Self-image is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 66 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2290 citations.
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TL;DR: This article found that when individuals evaluated a member of a stereotyped group, they were less likely to evaluate that person negatively if their self-images had been bolstered through a self-affirmation procedure, and they were more likely to assess that person stereotypically if their own self-image had been threatened by negative feedback.
Abstract: The authors argue that self-image maintenance processes play an important role in stereotyping and prejudice. Three studies demonstrated that when individuals evaluated a member of a stereotyped group, they were less likely to evaluate that person negatively if their self-images had been bolstered through a self-affirmation procedure, and they were more likely to evaluate that person stereotypically if their self-images had been threatened by negative feedback.' Moreover, among those individuals whose self-image had been threatened, derogating a stereotyped target mediated an increase in their self-esteem. The authors suggest that stereotyping and prejudice may be a common means to maintain one's self-image, and they discuss the role of self-image-maintenance processes in the context of motivational, sociocultural, and cognitive approaches to stereotyping and prejudice.
1,088 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that although self-reported academic self-esteem is a strong and accurate predictor of school achievement, additionally rather low, not high, general selfesteem was a significant predictor of superior school performance when academic selfesteem and multicollinearity is controlled for.
204 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined how injunctive cultural norms concerning body image are perceived by women, assessed the degree of body shame that occurs when an individual sees herself as differing from the cultural standard, and measured the extent to which the internalization of this standard as a personal ideal may influence the experience of body-related shame.
Abstract: In this study, we examined how injunctive cultural norms concerning body image are perceived by women, assessed the degree of body shame that occurs when an individual sees herself as differing from the cultural standard, and measured the extent to which the internalization of this standard as a personal ideal may influence the experience of body-related shame. Female college students (N = 687) completed measures of body shame and two types of body image self-discrepancy—actual:own ideal (AI) and actual:societal ought (ASO). Self-discrepancies were determined by subtracting participants' ideal and ought estimates from their actual body shape perception. AI was found to mediate the relationship between ASO and shame, which suggests that the internalization of body ideals may be an important antecedent to emotional consequences from cultural norms.
136 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that Chinese students self-enhanced more when primed with an individual mindset than with a collective mindset when using English than when made salient by using Chinese, and that selfenhancement in social-comparison situations depends on the cultural mindset salient at the moment of self-reflection.
97 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a symbolic interactionist perspective to examine in-depth interviews with thirty-three male batterers and a demographically matched comparison group of twenty-five nonviolent male subjects.
Abstract: Researchers estimate that 3-4 million women are abused by intimate partners each year, and the United States Surgeon General reports physical abuse as the leading cause of injury to women in the U.S. Although numerous studies have examined survivors’perceptions of domestic violence, few have examined battery from the perpetrator's perspective. We use a symbolic interactionist perspective to examine in-depth interviews with thirty-three male batterers and a demographically matched comparison group of twenty-five nonviolent male subjects. Our findings indicate that batterers minimize others’negative views of themselves, and they dissociate themselves from their partners’physical and emotional injuries. The comparison subjects, on the other hand, consider others’negative views of themselves, and they describe a deeper understanding of their intimate others’problems. We argue that an understanding of the batterer's perception of himself and others in domestic violence will help counselors develop techniques to stop male violence against women.
61 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2025 | 17 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2023 | 22 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2019 | 5 |