The relationship between self-esteem level, self-esteem stability, and cardiovascular reactions to performance feedback.
The authors examined the notion that individuals with unstable high self-esteem possess implicit self-doubt. They adopted the framework of the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat and assessed spontaneous cardiovascular reactions in the face of success versus failure performance feedback. Study 1 revealed predicted interactions between feedback condition, self-esteem level, and self-esteem stability, such that participants with unstable high self-esteem exhibited relative threat (a negative reaction) in the failure condition, whereas those with stable high self-esteem exhibited relative challenge (a positive reaction). Study 2 replicated these results and provided additional evidence against plausible alternative explanations.
Seery
Mark D
MD
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA. seery@psych.ucsb.edu
Blascovich
Jim
J
Weisbuch
Max
M
Vick
S Brooke
SB
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