Fragile Self-Esteem
Fragile Self-Esteem
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DOI：
10.1093/restud/rdab060
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发表时间：
2021-10-16
影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Murooka，Takeshi
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作者：
Koszegi，Botond;Loewenstein，George;Murooka，Takeshi
我们建立了一个脆弱的自尊模型，这种自尊很容易受到客观上不合理的波动的影响，并研究其对依赖于或旨在增强或保护自我观点的选择的影响。在我们的框架中，一个人的自尊是通过采样他对与自我相关的结果的记忆来决定的，而这种记忆反过来又取决于他对自己的感觉，这可能会创造出多个脆弱的“自尊个人平衡”。如果成功对代理人来说很重要，那么自尊特别可能是脆弱的，无论是积极的还是消极的，都是不现实的。当成功更重要的时候，自尊心低的人可能会付出更少的努力。相比之下，自尊较高的人可能会扭曲自己的选择，以防止自尊崩溃，如果他的真实能力较低，扭曲程度会更大。我们讨论了我们的结果对心理健康、教育、求职、工作狂和攻击性的影响。
We develop a model of fragile self-esteem—self-esteem that is vulnerable to objectively unjustified swings—and study its implications for choices that depend on, or are aimed at enhancing or protecting, one’s self-view. In our framework, a person’s self-esteem is determined by sampling his memories of ego-relevant outcomes in a fashion that in turn depends on how he feels about himself, potentially creating multiple fragile “self-esteem personal equilibria.” Self-esteem is especially likely to be fragile, as well as unrealistic in either the positive or the negative direction, if being successful is important to the agent. A person with a low self-view might exert less effort when success is more important. An individual with a high self-view, in contrast, might distort his choices to prevent a collapse in self-esteem, with the distortion being greater if his true ability is lower. We discuss the implications of our results for mental well-being, education, job search, workaholism, and aggression.