Actuarial Science 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Comparison Theory, Motivation, Positive Feedback
9 Mar 2016
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Self-concept clarity: a strong, stable knowledge of who we are. Low self-esteem, unstable changes in how you think about yourself may result in self-concept confusion. Thought suppression: trying to push away certain thoughts, although this method oten backires. Self-schemas: it is easy to remember and think about informaion related to ourselves. Self-reference: we ind it easier to recall informaion pertaining to ourselves, paricularly posiive informaion. Individualisic cultures (canada) have a more independent view, resuling in more self-concept clarity. Males tend to have a more collecivisic interdependent self-concept, whereas women have a more relaional interdependent self-concept. Collecivist cultures (asian countries) have a more interdependent view, resuling in lower self-concept clarity, but not necessarily lower self-esteem. Self-esteem: what we think and feel about ourselves (cogniive beliefs, afecive feelings) Self-esteem is correlated to health (but no causaion!) Self-esteem movement: boosing self-esteem causes one to have beter achievements and conidence, however, this movement proved to be incorrect.
