TARGET ARTICLE: Toward a Conceptualization of Optimal Self-Esteem

By M. Kernis. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Authentic leadership, creativity, and innovation: A multilevel perspective (2013, background): “In line with the conceptual model of authentic leadership (Gardner et al., 2005), these characteristics can be grouped in three authentic leadership dimensions; self-awareness, self-regulation, and positive modeling.”
Congruence of leader self-perceptions and follower perceptions of authentic leadership: Understanding what authentic leadership is and how it enhances employees’ job satisfaction (2014, background): “Such behaviour encourages trust within the leader–follower relationship, in which information is shared and true thoughts and feelings are expressed (Kernis, 2003).”
The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale (2008, background): “Kernis (2003) has posited that authenticity should be related more to secure self-esteem than to insecure self-esteem, and this could now be tested directly.”
Authentic Leadership: An Empirical Test of Its Antecedents, Consequences, and Mediating Mechanisms (2011, background): “…studies point to the fact that persons who clearly know their attitudes and values as well as their strengths and weaknesses across different domains and situations experience higher levels of positive affect and well-being, which may in turn, enable them to behave authentically (cf. Kernis 2003).”
Personality Strength and Situational Influences on Behavior (2015, background): “Of note is the fact that similar predictions appear to have been generated in the attitude and self-concept literatures largely independently of each other and the personality literature (Baird, Le, & Lucas, 2006; S. J. Sherman & Fazio, 1983; note also the rarity of cross-literature citations in sou”
Driven to Work and Enjoyment of Work (2012, background): “Their positive attitudes toward themselves are secure, well anchored, and not vulnerable to threats (Kernis, 2003; Zeigler-Hill, Chadha, & Osterman, 2008).”
Psychological Empowerment as a Mediator Between Teachers’ Perceptions of Authentic Leadership and Their Withdrawal and Citizenship Behaviors (2014, background): “Preliminary efforts to implement authentic leadership (Gardner, Avolio, Luthans, May, & Walumbwa, 2005; Kermis, 2003; Walumbwa et al., 2008) have revealed certain characteristics required of authentic leaders: (a) selfawareness—a heightened awareness of the world they live in, awareness of their…”
Identifying moderators of brand attachment for driving customer purchase intention of original vs counterfeits of luxury brands (2016, background): “According to Kernis (2003), a good self-image is considered to be one of the strongest psychogenic needs of human beings, because it encourages people to feel good about themselves.”
Leading Organizational Learning Through Authentic Dialogue (2008, background): “These include self-awareness, balanced processing, self-regulation and relational transparency (Avolio and Gardner, 2005; Gardner et al., 2005; Ilies et al., 2005; Kernis, 2003).”
Offensive Defensiveness: Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Compensatory Zeal After Mortality Salience, Personal Uncertainty, and Other Poignant Self-Threats (2006, background): “criterion ensured that the HSE was a special subset that has proven particularly nondefensive (Kernis, 2003).”
CONTINGENCIES OF SELF-WORTH AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN COLLEGE STUDENTS (2006, background): “Specifically, some researchers conceptualize self–worth as either contingent or noncontingent, with the domain(s) on which self–esteem is based considered to be irrelevant (Deci & Ryan, 1995; Kernis, 2003).”
Why interpersonal dominance and affiliation matter: an interaction analysis of the coach-client relationship (2013, background): “However, authentic behaviour is an important aspect of mutual trust and ‘relational authenticity means being genuine and not ‘‘fake’’ in one’s relationships with others’ (Kernis, 2003, p. 15).”
Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts (2007, background): “In addition to the issues regarding social comparison and discrepancy reviewed above, such an analysis also suggests that ACC's ideology encourages a particular form of self-esteem that researchers have called “fragile” or “contingent” ( Deci and Ryan, 1995 ; Crocker, 2002 ; Kernis, 2003 ).”
A Multicomponent Conceptualization of Authenticity: Theory and Research (2006, methodology): “…the issue of how authenticity and self‐esteem relate is complex because high self‐esteem has multiple forms, some more closely related to psychological health and well‐being than are others (Jordan, Logel, Spencer, & Zanna, in press; Kernis, 2003; Kernis &Waschull, 1995; Paradise & Kernis, 2002).”