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self-affirmation: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

affirming an important value restores self-integrity and so reduces defensiveness to threats.

In social psychology, self-affirmation refers to affirming an important value restores self-integrity and so reduces defensiveness to threats. This meaning comes from Steele (1988) in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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References

Steele, C. M. (1988). The Psychology of Self-Affirmation: Sustaining the Integrity of the Self. In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (pp. 261-302). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60229-4

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