1. Does Self –Threat Promote Social Connection? Psychology Of Group Dynamics DPSD2 0903A 18 Jan 2010
2. Contents Overview Of Studies Study 1 Study2 Study3 Study4 Study 5 Study 6 Limitations Recommendations Conclusion The End
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4. Examine whether initial social motives differed for people with high self-esteem vs. low self-esteem.
5. Hypothesized that HSE appearance contingent participants would express greater desire for social contact with close others following self threat while LSE avoid any forms of affiliation.
6. Expected the combination of trait self-esteem and appearance contingency of self-worth would shape responses to self-threat.
16. Participants were told to observe the objects around the room where they are seated, think about all of it and again, list it down in a piece of paper provided.Afterwards, they indicated their desire to engage in various activities with close others. Participants were debriefed and dismissed.
26. Seated in a private cubicle, as it is in study 1
27. Student wrote essays on the physical/body/face that they do not like about themselves
28. After the essay writing, students were provided with instructions that varied on experimental conditions : Neutral Self-affirmation Close relationship prime
40. Study 3 Results & Discussions: Results revealed only the predicted 3-way interaction between Self-esteem, Appearance CSW, and Condition . Among HSE participants in the appearance threat condition, having high appearance CSW was related to greater desire to be with close others . Among LSE participants in the appearance threat condition, having high appearance CSW was associated with less desire to engage in activities with close others. However, researchers had found an effect of appearance CSW among HSE participants in the negative competence feedback condition (i.e., high appearance CSW was associated with less desire for social contact).
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42. HSE- Expected to have increased desire to affiliate with close other.
43. LSE- expected to avoid contact with both close and people in general as they perceived as a potential sources of rejection & negative evaluation.
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45. Participants were told to write on the experience in relief by describing the situation where they hated how the appear to look like- Appearance threat condition
73. Study 6 Method: 48 participants (24 women, 24 men) 1 female and 1 male in each session. Seated in separate rooms. Purpose of study was to…… They were brought together and then brought to separate rooms again. Randomly assigned for either positive or negative feedback. Manipulation checks and reported their desire to engage in appearance activities. Debriefed and dismissed.
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75. Limitations Aim of this research was to identify the immediate motivational consequences of experiencing a threat to a domain of contingent self-worth, and to examine how these motivational consequences differed for people with HSE versus LSE. Accordingly, the dependent measures used captured a relatively direct, early-in-the-stream portrayal of people’s motivations. The studies reported here used relatively controlled and unambiguous forms of self-threat.
76. Limitations Another limitation pertains to the generalizability of the current findings. Another interpretation, however, is that the competence feedback .
77. Recommendations Future studies should examine the extent to which participants’ initial motivations lead to strategic behaviors aimed at social acceptance and self-enhancement. Future research might profitably examine whether self-esteem and contingencies of self-worth shape people’s tendency to view ambiguous social events as posing particular kinds of threats. Future studies would benefit from examining whether the specific domain on which people stake their self-worth has implications for the manner in which they cope with threat.
78. Conclusion Threats to the intellective self may motivate endeavors to restore one’s self-regard and sense of social belonging (MacDonald & Leary, 2005). People with HSE, who tend to feel positively regarded by others, responded to self-threat in a socially optimistic fashion, by seeking to affiliate directly with others as potential sources of reassurance and affirmation. In contrast, people with LSE, who tend to feel less positively regarded by others, responded in a socially cautious manner, by seeking to withdraw from others and to redress personal savors perceived to be deficient (i.e., by enhancing their attractiveness).
79. The End Thank You !!! Done by: Lithya Krishna Edora Mayangsari Chermaine Ng