The costs of seeking self-esteem
The costs of seeking self-esteem
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DOI：
10.1111/1540-4560.00279
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发表时间：
2002-09-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Crocker, J
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作者：
Crocker, J
美国人热衷于追求自尊，试图满足使一个人有价值的偶然性或标准。在这篇文章中，我研究了这种追求自尊的代价，从能力，关系和心理健康的角度来看，以及对他人的影响。我假设自我价值的外部偶然性需要他人的验证，并且作为自尊的基础是不可靠的，因此与更大的成本相关。一项对642名大学新生的种族多样性样本的纵向研究数据支持这样一种观点，即自我价值的偶然性塑造了学生如何度过他们的时间，以及自我价值的外部偶然性，特别是外表，对压力，侵略，毒品和酒精使用以及饮食失调症状有很高的成本。
Americans are deeply engaged in the pursuit of self-esteem, attempting to satisfy contingencies or criteria for what makes a person worthwhile. In this article, I examine the costs of this pursuit of self-esteem for the self in terms of competence, relatedness, and mental health, and for others. I hypothesize that external contingencies of self-worth require validation from others and are unreliable as a basis of self-esteem, and hence are associated with greater costs. Data from a longitudinal study of an ethnically diverse sample of 642 college freshman support the view that contingencies of self-worth shape how students spend their time, and the prediction that external contingencies of self-worth, especially appearance, have high costs for stress, aggression, drug and alcohol use, and symptoms of disordered eating.