Low Self-Esteem Is Related to Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, and Delinquency

By M. B. Donnellan, Kali Trzesniewski, Richard W. Robins, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi. Psychology Science, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

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2. W. Keith Campbell
3. J. Foster
4. Daniel N. Jones
5. Jean M. Twenge
6. D. Paulhus
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In Social Psychology

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2. Richard W. Robins
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4. W. Keith Campbell
5. J. Foster
6. P. Jonason
7. Sara Konrath
8. D. Paulhus

Citations in the corpus

• Self-Esteem and Future Orientation Predict Adolescents’ Risk Engagement (2017, background): “One possible reason for the weak or contradictory findings is that most studies are cross-sectional (Donnellan et al., 2005; McGee & Williams, 2000; Rosenberg, Schooler, & Schoenbach, 1989), making it difficult to parse the direction of effects between self-esteem and adolescent problem behaviors.”
• Further Evidence of an Increase in Narcissism Among College Students (2008, background): “Furthermore, low self-esteem leading to negative outcomes like delinquency (Donnellan et al., 2005) may be caused by a deeper underlying difficulty like social exclusion by family or peers, problems that self-esteem programs are unlikely to remedy.”
• Pride, personality, and the evolutionary foundations of human social status (2010, background): “In fact, previous research has demonstrated that genuine self-esteem—controlling for narcissism—tends to be negatively associated with the anti-social and aggressive behaviors typical of dominant leaders (Donnellan et al., 2005; Paulhus et al., 2004).”
• Humble Beginnings: Current Trends, State Perspectives, and Hallmarks of Humility (2013, background): “esteem correlates with more delinquency and more of a tendency to externalize problems (Donnellan et al., 2005).”
• Collective Narcissism Predicts Hypersensitivity to In–group Insult and Direct and Indirect Retaliatory Intergroup Hostility (2016, result): “Such an interpretation would be in line with previous studies suggesting that low self-esteem is related to delinquency and aggressiveness (Donnellan et al., 2005; Trzesniewski et al., 2006) and a tendency to engage in schadenfreude towards those who threaten the self-image (Van Dijk, Ouwerkerk, Van”