Hopes Dashed and Dreams Fulfilled: Contingencies of Self-Worth and Graduate School Admissions

By Jennifer Crocker, Samuel R. Sommers, Riia K. Luhtanen. 2002

241 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Robert J. Vallerand
2. Jonathon D. Brown
3. Geneviève A. Mageau
4. Lora E. Park
5. J. Carpentier
6. J. Haynie
7. Jennifer Crocker
8. Dean A. Shepherd

In Clinical Psychology

1. Robert J. Vallerand
2. Geneviève A. Mageau
3. J. Haynie
4. J. Carpentier
5. Lora E. Park
6. Jonathon D. Brown
7. Jennifer Crocker
8. Dean A. Shepherd

In Social Psychology

1. Robert J. Vallerand
2. Jonathon D. Brown
3. Geneviève A. Mageau
4. J. Haynie
5. J. Carpentier
6. Lora E. Park
7. Dean A. Shepherd
8. Jennifer Crocker

Citations in the corpus

• High self-esteem buffers negative feedback: Once more with feeling (2010, background): “Many psychologists conflate them, using the term “state self-esteem” to refer to momentary feelings of self-worth, and “trait self-esteem” to refer to global self-esteem (eg, Crocker et al, 2002 ; DeHart & Pelham, 2007 ; Heatherton & Polivy, 1991 ; Leary, 2006 ).”
• The costly pursuit of self-esteem. (2004, background): “Indeed, empirical research indicates that drops in self-esteem that result from failure in domains on which self-esteem is staked are larger than increases in response to success (Crocker, Karpinski et al., in press; Crocker et al., 2002).”
• The role of self-esteem contingencies in the distinction between obsessive and harmonious passion (2011, background): “…competency as one of their self-esteem contingencies, the more they experience increases of selfesteem on days when they receive an acceptance letter from a potential graduate school and the more they suffer from a decrease in self-esteem when they receive a rejection letter (Crocker et al., 2002).”
• Venture failure, stigma, and impression management: A self‐verification, self‐determination view (2011, background): “For example, in a study of college seniors applying to graduate programs, Crocker et al. (2002) found that those students who invested more of their selfesteem in academic competence had increased selfworth on days they were accepted by graduate programs and decreased self-worth on days they were…”
• TARGET ARTICLE: Toward a Conceptualization of Optimal Self-Esteem (2003, unknown): “Crocker, Sommers, and Luhtanen (2002) examined the relation between contingent self-esteem and college seniors’ reactions to being accepted to or rejected by the graduate schools to which they had applied.”