Inflating Self esteem--Costs and Benefits for Motivation

膨胀的自尊——激励的成本和收益

• 批准号: 6356008
• 负责人: MATTHEW N MCMULLEN
• 金额: $ 10.05万
• 依托单位: MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY -BILLINGS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6356008
• 关键词: academic achievement; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; health behavior; human subject; motivation; psychological adaptation; self concept

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): People's desire to enhance their self-esteem is considered one of the basic human motivations. Whether this self-enhancement is functional or not, however, has been hotly debated in the research literature: Is an exaggerated perception of oneself adaptive? The specific question to be addressed in this application is whether self-enhancement is beneficial or detrimental to motivation and achievement. A literature review suggests that there are two divergent perspectives in the research to date: The first, termed here the persistence view, holds that self-enhancement leads to increased achievement via greater persistence in tasks. The second, termed here the complacency view, holds that self-enhancement leads to decreased achievement via self-satisfied complacency with one's current state. Although both of these perspectives are apparent in the research literature, they have yet to be adequately reconciled. Given the importance of motivation for achievement, health behavior, and adaptive functioning, the contradiction in the literature is a significant one that needs to be addressed. The proposed research tests a model that reconciles these divergent perspectives through an analysis of the types of tasks that promote persistence versus complacency. Research will employ a variety of measures and manipulations of the self-enhancement of participants engaged in various tasks (e.g., cognitive skills tests, academic-type achievement tasks, health behaviors). Measurements of their persistence and motivation in these tasks will be analyzed. The proposed research has implications for the general debate over the implications of self-enhancement for mental health.

描述(由调查人员提供)：人们希望提高他们的 自尊被认为是人类的基本动机之一。这是不是 然而，自我提升是起作用的还是不起作用的，在 研究文献：夸大的自我认知适应吗？这个 此应用程序中要解决的具体问题是 自我提升对动力和成就是有益的，也是有害的。一个 文献综述表明，在这一问题上存在两种不同的观点 到目前为止的研究：第一个，在这里被称为持久性观点，认为 自我提升通过更大的坚持不懈来提高成就 任务。第二种观点在这里被称为自满观点，认为 自我提升会导致自满导致成就下降 与某人目前的状态相关联。尽管这两种观点在 在研究文献中，它们还没有得到充分的协调。给定 成就动机、健康行为和适应性的重要性 发挥作用，文学中的矛盾是一个重要的矛盾 需要解决的问题。这项拟议的研究测试了一个模型，该模型符合 通过对任务类型的分析，这些不同的观点 提倡坚持不懈，而不是自满。研究将采用各种不同的 参赛者自我提升的措施与操作 各种任务(例如，认知技能测试，学术类型的成就任务， 健康行为)。测量他们在这些方面的坚持性和动机 将对任务进行分析。这项拟议的研究对一般的 关于自我提升对心理健康的影响的辩论。