• DOI:10.1080/03637750128062
Corpus ID: 42148945

Modeling the ego-defensive function of attitudes

@article{Lapinski2001ModelingTE,
  title={Modeling the ego-defensive function of attitudes},
  author={Maria Knight Lapinski and Franklin J. Boster},
  journal={Communication Monographs},
  year={2001},
  volume={68},
  pages={314 - 324}
}

Maria Knight Lapinski, Franklin J. Boster

Published 2001

Psychology

Communication Monographs

Studying the psychological needs served by holding certain attitudes is the focus of the functional approach to attitudinal research. One function evidenced consistently in attitudinal studies is the ego-defensive function. Attitudes serving an ego-defensive function protect one's self-concept from counterattitudinal messages about the self. This paper presents an alternative perspective for understanding the ego-defensive function by conceiving and modeling it as a causal process. The data… CONTINUE READING

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