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self-enhancement: a standalone construct

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self-enhancement1 CONSTRUCTSelf-enhancementSEDIKIDES · SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Social psychology

the motive to raise or protect the positivity of one's self-view, compared with motives to assess oneself accurately or to confirm existing self-views.

In social psychology, self-enhancement refers to the motive to raise or protect the positivity of one's self-view, compared with motives to assess oneself accurately or to confirm existing self-views. This meaning comes from Sedikides (1993) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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References

  1. Sedikides, C. (1993). Assessment, enhancement, and verification determinants of the self-evaluation process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(2), 317-338. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.65.2.317

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