Concern for self-image and social image in the management of moral failure: Rethinking shame
Concern for self-image and social image in the management of moral failure: Rethinking shame
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DOI:
10.1002/ejsp.803
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发表时间:
2011-06-01
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3.9
通讯作者:
Leach, Colin Wayne
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作者:
Gausel, Nicolay;Leach, Colin Wayne
Moral failure is thought to damage self-image when people appraise it as indicating a global self-defect. This appraisal is thought to be associated with the feeling of shame and thus self-defensive motivation. However, a damaged social image better explains self-defensive motivation to hide from and avoid others. Based on an integrative review of theory and research, we offer a conceptual model of how concern for self-image and social image guides the experience of moral failure. The model distinguishes the appraisals (of self-defect and other-condemnation) and feelings (of rejection, inferiority, and shame) embedded in the shame concept. Concern for a damaged social image is represented in an other-condemnation. rejection combination, whereas concern for a damaged self-image is represented in a (global) self-defect. inferiority combination. As these appraisal-feeling combinations are concerned with damage done to one's image, they should be linked to self-defensive motivation. As the (specific) self-defect. shame combination is concerned with a repairable defect in self-image, it should be linked with self-improvement motivation. Thus, our model explains why "shame" is sometimes tied to self-defensive motivation and sometimes tied to self-improvement motivation after moral failure. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.