• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.71.6.1130
Corpus ID: 7294467

Self-esteem and "if . . . then" contingencies of interpersonal acceptance.

@article{Baldwin1996SelfesteemA,
  title={Self-esteem and "if . . . then" contingencies of interpersonal acceptance.},
  author={Mark W. Baldwin and Leslie Sinclair},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={1996},
  volume={71 6},
  pages={
          1130-41
        }
}

Mark W. Baldwin, Leslie Sinclair

Published 1996

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of personality and social psychology

The degree to which an individual perceives interpersonal acceptance as being contingent on successes and failures, versus relatively unconditional, is an important factor in the social construction of self-esteem. The authors used a lexical-decision task to examine people's "if. . . then" expectancies. On each trial, participants were shown a success or failure context word and then they made a word-nonword judgment on a second letter string, which sometimes was a target word relating to… CONTINUE READING

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