Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?
Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.85.4.605
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发表时间：
2003-10-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
McDowell, NK
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作者：
Taylor, SE;Lerner, JS;McDowell, NK
自我提升被描述为一种积极的幻觉，可以促进健康和长寿，或者是防御性神经质，可能会产生生理神经内分泌成本。在实验室压力挑战范例中，作者发现高自我增强者对压力的心血管反应较低。更快的心血管恢复，和较低的基线皮质醇水平，与积极的错觉预测一致，与防御性神经质立场的预测相反。第二组分析，复制“虚幻的心理健康范式”（J. Shedler。M. Mayman，& M. Manis，1993），也不支持防御性神经质假说。自我提升和皮质醇之间的关联是由心理资源介导的，对心血管结果的分析没有提供明确的中介途径。讨论集中在自我增强信念的潜在压力缓冲效应上。
Self-enhancement is variously portrayed as a positive illusion that can foster health and longevity or as defensive neuroticism, that can have physiological-neuroendocrine costs. In a laboratory stress-challenge paradigm, the authors found that high self-enhancers had lower cardiovascular responses to stress. more rapid cardiovascular recovery, and lower baseline cortisol levels, consistent with the positive illusions predictions and counter to the predictions of the defensive neuroticism position. A second set of analyses, replicating the "illusory mental health paradigm" (J. Shedler. M. Mayman, & M. Manis, 1993), also did not support the defensive neuroticism hypothesis. The association between self-enhancement and cortisol was mediated by psychological resources; analyses of the cardiovascular results provided no definitive mediational pathway. Discussion centers on the potential stress-buffering effects of self-enhancing beliefs.