On the Confluence of Self-Esteem Maintenance Mechanisms

By A. Tesser. 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion. (2003, background): “…concepts are now being seen once again in the explanation of diverse behaviors: sex (Abramson & Pinkerton, 1995), eating (Pinel, Assanand, & Lehman, 2000), aggression (Berkowitz, 1993), drug abuse (R. L. Solomon, 1977), self-esteem maintenance (Tesser, 2000), and helping behavior (Isen, 1999).”
Beyond self-esteem: influence of multiple motives on identity construction. (2006, background): “…has shown that self-liking and Table 1 Perspectives on self-concept, self-evaluation, and individual behavior Self-evaluation maintenance model (Tesser, 2000) ) X X Uncertainty reduction theory (Hogg, 2000) X Perspectives on identity threat and coping Self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988) X X…”
The Psychology of Self‐defense: Self‐Affirmation Theory (2006, background): “Tesser (2000) has argued that self‐esteem maintenance processes are essentially interchangeable with self‐aYrmation processes.”
Self-Enhancement: Food for Thought (2008, background): “Is self-enhancement therefore reducible to mood regulation (Tesser, 2000)? There are two reasons not to think so.”
What do you do when things go right? The intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits of sharing positive events. (2004, result): “These studies also complement research by Tesser and his colleagues on the extended self-evaluation maintenance model (e.g., Beach & Tesser, 1995; Tesser, 2000), which demonstrates that reflection processes—that is, the ability to share in a partner’s success—contribute to emotional well-being and r”
The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “…can be reasonably construed as having general implications for our sense of self, in addition to experiences that directly threaten our self-concept or self-esteem—and that all of these violations evoke fluid compensation efforts aimed at indirectly addressing the self-threat (Tesser, 2000).”
Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, background): “Unfavourable social comparison of this type is commonly used to study self-enhancement because it undermines the ability to perceive oneself as positively distinct (Tesser, 2000).”
Self‐esteem: a behavioural genetic perspective (2002, background): “Research on the self has increased threefold in the last 30 years, far exceeding the growth rate of published research in psychology as a whole (Tesser, 2000).”
The psychology of emotion regulation: An integrative review (2009, background): “Knowledge Cognitive dissonance reduction (HarmonJones & Mills, 1999); Motivated reasoning (Kunda, 1990); Self-defence (Tesser, 2000) Cognitive reappraisal (Gross, 1998b; Ochsner & Gross, 2008) Expressive writing (Pennebaker, 1997); Specification of emotional experience (Neumann & Philippot, 2007); A”
The Costs of Seeking Self–Esteem (2002, background): “…their self-worth, focusing on these valued aspects of the self in other domains increases tolerance for inconsistency between one’s attitudes and behaviors, reduces defensiveness, and increases openness to negative or threatening information, thus facilitating learning (Steele, 1988; Tesser, 2000).”
On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem (2015, background): “The principle has a venerable tradition in psychology (Crocker &Wolfe, 2001; Greenberg et al., 1997; Harter, 1993; Sedikides & Strube, 1997; Tesser, 2000).”
Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “…self-esteem as the fundamental resource that people protect with compensatory defenses and include theories of egocentricity (Beauregard & Dunning, 1998; Dunning & Hayes, 1996; Tesser, 2000), self-evaluation maintenance (Sedikides, 1993; Tesser, 1988), and the totalitarian ego (Greenwald, 1980).”
The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations (2006, methodology): “Tesser (2000) proposed that this higher end is the maintenance of self-esteem.”