title: Anticipating evaluative social interactions involving persons with disabilities.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Similar to other types of social interactions, the expected outcomes of interactions between persons with and without disabilities likely are influenced by global self-esteem such that individuals with high self-esteem should fare better than those with low self-esteem. The present set of laboratory studies examined whether simple and complex evaluative situations affect the role of self-esteem when anticipating interactions with individuals who have a physical disability.
  
  
  METHODS
  In Study 1, participants completed a measure of global self-esteem and then were randomly assigned to expect either a brief (5 minutes) or extended (45 minutes) interaction with a confederate in a wheelchair. Participants then completed measures of state affect and meta-evaluations (expected evaluations from the partner). Study 2 replicated the design of Study 1 and additionally randomly assigned participants to be outcome-dependent on the partner or not.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Study 1 found that individuals reported affective experiences and expected meta-evaluations that were consistent with global self-esteem when expecting a brief interaction but not an extended interaction with the partner. Study 2 replicated and extended the results from Study 1, demonstrating that self-esteem resumed a priority when participants expected an extended interaction that also placed the participant in an outcome-dependent role.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Taken together, the results seem to support a dilution of the role of self-esteem in simple evaluative situations but not in situations that are nonevaluative or situations with combined evaluative factors.
authors: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA. asantuzzi@niu.edu
authors: Alecia M
authors: AM
authors: Santuzzi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003463:Cues; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009511:New England; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping