INFLUENCING SELF-ESTEEM AND RUMINATION BY SELF-ASCRIPTION OF POSITIVE TRAITS: AN ASYMMETRY BETWEEN MORALITY AND COMPETENCE

• Authors: Baryla W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

As far as people organize information on the self in a coherent system, self-esteem may be changed from within by enhancing the salience of information already present in the self-system without getting new information from outside sources. The present theorizing based on a finding that retrieval of a generalization from semantic memory results in a heightened accessibility of episodic memories inconsistent with the generalization (Klein at al., 2002) and on the positive-negative asymmetry between the morality and competence domain (Reeder & Coovert, 1986). It was hypothesized that self-relevant thoughts following self-ascription of positive moral traits would lead to rumination and decreases in self-esteem while the opposite was expected for the self-ascription of positive traits related to competence. Results of 2 experiments supported these predictions and showed that changes in self-esteem resulting from self-ascription of positive traits were fully mediated by the intensity of rumination which followed the self-ascriptions.

Keywords

EN

COMPETENCE TRAITS; MORAL TRAITS; RUMINATION; SELF-ASCRIPTION; SELF-ESTEEM

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences jointly with the Committee on Psychological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kolokwia Psychologiczne (Psychological Colloquia)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 49-66
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Baryla W.

• W. Baryla, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Instytut Psychologii, ul. Pomorska 68, 80-343 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA00942175