Self-Esteem Memories: Feeling Good About Achievement Success, Feeling Bad About Relationship Distress
Self-Esteem Memories: Feeling Good About Achievement Success, Feeling Bad About Relationship Distress
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167207303952
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发表时间：
2007-07
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4
通讯作者：
David B Pillemer;Zorana Ivcevic;R. Gooze;K. Collins
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作者：
David B Pillemer;Zorana Ivcevic;R. Gooze;K. Collins
大学生和中年人提供了他们自我感觉特别好或特别糟糕的回忆。探测器将记忆搜索指向了童年、青春期和成年期的几个年龄段。自尊记忆中所代表的主导主题始终不同的情感效价的函数。积极的自我价值感的记忆往往集中在成就/掌握的主题，而消极的自我价值感的记忆往往集中在人际/关系的主题。当人们通过自传体记忆的透镜来评估自我时，人际关系的痛苦被描绘成特别具有破坏性，而成就的成功被描绘成特别具有增强性。积极和消极的自尊记忆之间的不对称性解释使用社会和人格心理学中的多个理论观点。
College students and middle-aged adults provided memories of occasions when they felt especially good or especially bad about themselves. Probes directed the memory search to several age intervals during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Predominant themes represented in self-esteem memories differed consistently as a function of emotional valence. Memories of positive self-worth frequently focused on achievement/mastery themes, whereas memories of negative self-worth frequently focused on interpersonal/affiliation themes. When people evaluate the self through the lens of autobiographical memory, interpersonal distress is portrayed as especially damaging and achievement success is portrayed as especially enhancing. The asymmetry between positive and negative self-esteem memories is explained using multiple theoretical perspectives within social and personality psychology.