Perfectionism and explicit self-esteem: The moderating role of implicit self-esteem

Fragile Self-esteem and the Interpersonal Circumplex: Are Feelings of Self-worth Associated with Interpersonal Style?

“…As a result, men with low self-esteem may employ interpersonal styles intended to deny status to others as a way of compensating for their own lack of status. These results extend an emerging literature focused on the distinctions between true and uncertain forms of low self-esteem (e.g., Schro¨der-Abe´, Rudolph, & Schu¨tz, 2007a;Schro¨der-Abe´, Rudolph, Wiesner, & Schu¨tz, 2007b;Spencer et al, 2005;Zeigler-Hill & Abraham, 2006;Zeigler-Hill & Terry, 2007).…”

Effects of an 8-week meditation program on the implicit and explicit attitudes toward religious/spiritual self-representations

“…As a few examples, individuals with high explicit self-esteem but low implicit self-esteem expose traits of a narcissistic personality (Bosson et al, 2003); on the contrary, people with the opposite configuration, i.e. with high scores on measures of implicit self-esteem and low scores on measures of explicit self-esteem, seem to be subject to maladaptive forms of perfectionism Schröder-Abé, Rudolph, Wiesner, et al, 2007;Zeigler-Hill & Terry, 2007; see also Briñol et al, 2006;Koole et al, 2009). On this view, future studies should try to extend to individuals involved in a mindfulness meditation program and to RS and/or SE measures the results of those few previous studies that showed a stronger relation between implicit and explicit affect and self-esteem in meditation naïve individuals with high vs. low dispositional mindfulness (Brown & Ryan, 2003) or in subjects who were engaged in a brief meditation exercise before vs. after completing implicit and explicit self-measures (Koole et al, 2009).…”

Implicit and explicit self-esteem as concurrent predictors of suicidal ideation, depressive symptoms, and loneliness

“…It might be possible that people feel entrapped between their goals (i.e., implicit selfesteem) and perceived reality (i.e., explicit self-esteem) and instead of engaging in accommodative coping efforts (adapt goals), they may engage in suicidal ideation as an active way to reestablish an escape route. In support of this, damaged self-esteem (high implicit and low explicit self-esteem) has found to be associated with maladaptive forms of perfectionism (Zeigler-Hill & Terry, 2007) characterized by high fixed goals and standards. Furthermore, suicidal people often show high standards or expectations combined with recent failure (Baumeister, 1990).…”