PSY 348 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psych, Self Esteem (Song), Impression Management
4 Mar 2018
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The role of ability judgments in self-handicapping | mccrea & hirt (2001) Does self handicapping preserve conceptions of ability in particular domain despite poor performance: high self-handicappers (hsh) reduced effort, performed worse. Failure attributed to handicap rather than lack of ability: bolster and lead to stronger ability attributions. Self handicapping thought to be motivated by need to protect global self-esteem: enhanced by anticipated threats to self esteem that create uncertainty about one"s ability. Self-presentational or impression management concerns may also motivate self-handicapping. Self-handicappers reluctant to enhance ability attributions: augmenting success may be considered too risky for self-handicappers b/c it will raise expectations of others and may necessitate conquering task again. Self-handicapping preserves overall self-esteem: ppl who selfhandicapped maintain high lvls of self-esteem following failure, mediated by ability attributions. Assumption that self-eesteem protected by self-handicapping b/c conceptions of ability important to self maintained/enhanced: only evidence = discounting/augmenting of ability attrib following perf rather than direct examination of ability beliefs.
