Understanding self-affirmation effects: The moderating role of self-esteem

CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the proposition that self-esteem serves as affirmational resources, which implies that self-affirmation interventions to reduce defensiveness to health messages may be beneficial for people with high self-esteem but less so for people with lower self-esteem. Similar to much other self-esteem research, self-esteem was negatively skewed, which warrants caution in generalization of the findings across all levels of self-esteem.PMID:33641204 | DOI:10.1111/bjhp.12517

Source: British Journal of Health Psychology - February 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xuan Zhu Marco Yzer Source Type: research