SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: TUNING THE SOCIOMETER TO INTERPERSONAL VALUE
| dc.contributor.author | Anthony, Danu Beltara | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-05-14T21:06:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-05-14T21:06:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-05-14T21:06:27Z | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2007 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The author drew on sociometer theory to propose that self-esteem is attuned to traits that garner others’ acceptance, and the traits that garner acceptance depend on one’s social role. Attunement of self-esteem refers to the linkage, or connection, between self-esteem and specific traits, which may be observed most clearly in the association between self-esteem and specific self-evaluations. In most roles, appearance and popularity determine acceptance, so self-esteem is most attuned to those traits. At the same time, interdependent social roles emphasize the value of communal qualities, so occupants of those roles have self-esteem that is more attuned to communal qualities than is the general norm. To avoid the biases of people's personal theories, attunement of self-esteem to particular traits was assessed indirectly via the correlation between self-esteem and self-ratings (Study 2), with cognitive accessibility measures (Study 3), by observing the responsiveness of people’s self-concepts to social cues about the self (Study 4), and with an experiment involving social decision-making (Study 5). As hypothesized, self-esteem was generally more attuned to appearances than communal qualities, but interdependent social roles predicted heightened attunement of self-esteem to qualities like kindness and understanding. | en |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3008 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | self-esteem | en |
| dc.subject | self-concept | en |
| dc.subject | social acceptance | en |
| dc.subject.program | Psychology | en |
| dc.title | SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: TUNING THE SOCIOMETER TO INTERPERSONAL VALUE | en |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | Psychology | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |