title: When we feel good and bad about ourselves: self-esteem memories across cultures.
abstract: Young adults in the United States, Croatia, and China described personal episodes of times when they felt especially good or bad about themselves. These self-esteem memories were either recent (episodes that occurred during the previous 4 weeks) or remote (episodes that occurred between the ages of 10 and 15). Systematic content differences between memories of positive and negative self-worth were apparent primarily for remote rather than for recent memories. Across cultures, long-lasting positive memories frequently represented achievement themes, whereas negative memories frequently represented social themes. Links between achievement success and positive self-regard, and between social distress and negative self-regard, are explained using theories of self-esteem and autobiographical memory.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA. zivcevic@unh.edu
authors: Zorana
authors: Z
authors: Ivcevic
authors: David B
authors: DB
authors: Pillemer
authors: Qi
authors: Q
authors: Wang
authors: Yubo
authors: Y
authors: Hou
authors: Huizhen
authors: H
authors: Tang
authors: Tamara
authors: T
authors: Mohoric
authors: Vladimir
authors: V
authors: Taksic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D017523:Croatia / Q000208:ethnology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D012649:Self Concept; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology