PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mexican Americans, Social Comparison Theory, Collectivism
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Motivations for self-enhancement and self-esteem: self-enhancement is the motivation to view oneself positively. Strategies like this will make yourself feel good again. (on contrary, when we compare ourselves with someone who is doing better than us, is called upward social comparison. : another strategy you might try is compensatory self-enhancement. In this case, you acknowledge the poor grade you got in class but instead start to think about your excellent clarinet-playing skills: you might also try discounting your setback. It means to reduce the perceived importance of the domain in which you performed poorly: you can make an external attribution for your poor performance. Cultural variation in self-enhancing motivations: motivations for positive self-views are powerful and pervasive, one study investigated if people from more collectivistic backgrounds show similarly strong (cid:373)otivatio(cid:374)s to e(cid:374)ha(cid:374)ce the(cid:373)selves" by comparing the positivity of self-views of mexican-
