Peering behind the mask: The roles of reactance and gender in the relationship between self-esteem and interpersonal problems.

DISCUSSION: These results shed light on how behavioural reactance may be an important manifestation of low self-esteem for men, and a key contributor to their interpersonal problems. The findings draw attention to the importance of considering different factors at play when working with reactant individuals in therapy. PMID: 33283914 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research