When rejection stings: how self-esteem constrains relationship-enhancement processes.
When rejection stings: how self-esteem constrains relationship-enhancement processes.
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当拒绝刺痛时：自尊如何限制关系增强过程。
DOI：
10.1037//0022-3514.83.3.556
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Kusche,AnnaGarrett
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作者：
Murray,SandraL;Rose,Paul;Bellavia,GinaM;Holmes,JohnG;Kusche,AnnaGarrett
三项实验研究了接受需求如何限制低自尊者与高自尊者在面临困难时保护其人际关系的能力。作者让参与者相信他们的伴侣意识到了他们的关系中存在问题。然后，他们测量了对伴侣接受度、伴侣增强度和亲密程度的看法。自尊心低但不高的参与者对问题的解读过多，将其视为伴侣的感情和承诺可能正在减弱的迹象。然后他们贬低了伴侣并减少了亲密程度。然而，由于对拒绝不太敏感，高自尊的参与者在面对威胁时肯定了他们的伴侣。讽刺的是，长期需要接受可能会导致低自尊的人看到不存在的拒绝迹象，不必要地削弱依恋。
Three experiments examined how needs for acceptance might constrain low versus high self-esteem people's capacity to protect their relationships in the face of difficulties. The authors led participants to believe that their partner perceived a problem in their relationship. They then measured perceptions of the partner's acceptance, partner enhancement, and closeness. Low but not high self-esteem participants read too much into problems, seeing them as a sign that their partner's affections and commitment might be waning. They then derogated their partner and reduced closeness. Being less sensitive to rejection, however, high self-esteem participants affirmed their partner in the face of threat. Ironically, chronic needs for acceptance may result in low self-esteem people seeing signs of rejection where none exist, needlessly weakening attachments.