Body esteem: An exception to self-enhancing illusions?

被引:10
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作者
Powell, JL [1 ]
Matacin, ML [1 ]
Stuart, AE [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hartford, Dept Psychol, Hartford, CT 06117 USA
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10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb00212.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Participants were 192 university students (96 males, 96 females) who completed the Body Esteem scale (Franzoi & Shields, 1984) under instructions to rate their feelings about their own bodies, rate their feelings about a specific or "average" student's body, and rate the importance they and others attached to these feelings. One of the findings is that when individuals perceived themselves as less positive on a particular desirable physical traits they also rated the trait as less important to possess in the first place. The only exception to this was women's weight concern. It was also found that men generally rated themselves higher on body-esteem subscales than they rated other men, while women did not exhibit such self-serving evaluations of their bodies. One implication from these results is that the same self-enhancement strategies successfully employed by individuals in other areas of self-evaluations were not successful in enhancing one's body esteem, especially women's weight concern.
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页码:1951 / 1978
页数:28
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