Designing and testing a risk regulation intervention to increase relationship initiation among individuals with lower self-esteem
| dc.contributor.author | Hole, Christine | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Morry, Marian (Psychology) Albas, Daniel (Sociology) | en |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Cameron, Jessica (Psychology) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-20T16:59:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-20T16:59:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-01-20T16:59:59Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Psychology | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Social risk elicits an internal struggle between wanting to form significant relationships (i.e., connectedness goals) and avoiding rejection (i.e., self-protection goals). The current research tested an intervention designed to reduce perceptions of risk for low self-esteem individuals (LSEs). However, the intervention did not function as anticipated and regardless of self-esteem level, participants reported lower perceived acceptance and lower state self-esteem in the intervention condition compared to the control. In a post-session two weeks following the manipulation, high self-esteem individuals (HSEs) in the intervention appear to not only recover, but actually reported significantly more perceived regard and global self-esteem than HSEs in the control. A second study investigated the impact of the intervention in light of these surprising findings. Results suggest that viewing the intervention video in a socially risky situation caused both HSEs and LSEs to experience social threat. In contrast, the control video actually served to reduce social risk. | en |
| dc.description.note | May 2011 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 585666 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4392 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | social personality psychology | en |
| dc.subject | self-esteem | en |
| dc.subject | relationships | en |
| dc.subject | risk-regulation | en |
| dc.subject | perceptions of acceptance | en |
| dc.title | Designing and testing a risk regulation intervention to increase relationship initiation among individuals with lower self-esteem | en |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |