Self-enhancement and self-protection: What they are and what they do

By M. Alicke, Constantine Sedikides. 2009

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My intelligence may be more malleable than yours: the revised implicit theories of intelligence (self-theory) scale is a better predictor of achievement, motivation, and student disengagement (2015, neutral): “…effects have long pointed to the ways rational judgments are distorted when people consider their abilities relative to others (Alicke, 1985; Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Dunning, Leuenberger & Sherman, 1995; Hepper, Gramzow & Sedikides, 2010; Gramzow, Elliot, Asher, & McGregor, 2003; Story &…”
Tactical Self-Enhancement in China (2011, background): “All humans need to self-enhance for the advancement of crucial psychological interests (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Hepper, Gramzow, & Sedikides, 2010).”
Self-esteem and passion for activities (2011, background): “…selfregulatory strategies, in that they are more responsive to situational cues (i.e., degree of failure, presence of alternatives, amount of progress) and are more efficient in self-regulating multiple goals (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Di Paula & Campbell, 2002; Sedikides, Gregg, & Hart, 2007).”
Self-concept Clarity Mediates the Relation between Stress and Subjective Well-being (2011, neutral): “These processes may in turn weaken not only one's sense of positive identity (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009 ; Schlenker, 1985 , 1987 ; Sedikides & Strube, 1997 ), but also one's sense of identity coherence (Berzonsky, 1992 ; Sedikides, De Cremer, Hart, & Brebels, 2010 ; Smith, Wethington, & Zhan, ”
A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations (2017, background): “This will trigger an identity-driven reaction of self-protection, which is the desire to shelter or defend one’s positive self-views in one’s own eyes or in the eyes of others (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Sedikides, 2009).”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, background): “The literature on the selfenhancement motive has shown over the years that people tend to see themselves in more positive ways than is warranted (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Sedikides & Gregg, 2008; Taylor & Brown, 1988).”
How Are We Doing After 30 Years? A Meta-Analytic Review of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Feedback-Seeking Behavior (2015, background): “Feedback might hurt or boost employees’ feelings of self-worth (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009).”
Memory as a self-protective mechanism (2009, background): “…is associated with health benefits, such as higher psychological adjustment (e.g. subjective well-being, optimism, planning, active coping) or lower psychological maladjustment (e.g. depression, anxiety, neuroticism, hostility) (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Sedikides , Gregg, & Hart, 2007).”
Trait and State Authenticity Across Cultures (2014, background): “For example, people across many cultures engage in self-enhancement (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Gaertner, Sedikides, & Cai, 2012; Hepper, Sedikides, & Cai, 2013), but it is just that they self-enhance in distinct ways (e.g., individualists via agency, collectivists via communion; Cai et al., 2011;…”
You want me to do what? Two daily diary studies of illegitimate tasks and employee well‐being (2016, background): “SOS is based on the widely accepted notion that maintaining a positive self-view is a basic human goal (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009).”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “Study 2 Literature reviews detail the many means by which persons inoculate themselves against threats to a favorable self-view (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009, 2011a; Leary et al., 2009; Sedikides, 2012; vanDellen et al., 2011).”