Self-verification, Self-enhancement And Well-being

According to self-enhancement theory when we select other people's evaluations to us, the more positive evaluations is the better, but according to self-verification if the other people's evaluations is more consistent with our own self-concept, it is the better.The research is to investigate three questions: whether the subjects will be affected by the two motives of self-verification and self-enhancement when they select other people's evaluations to them? What will happen to these two self-motives when we select friends' evaluations or lovers' evaluations to us, and whether self-esteem and the certainty of our self-concept will influence the strength of the two self-motives? What influence that the two self-motives will have on our well-being ? The results are demonstrated as following:1. Self-verification motive and self-enhancement motive influence our process of selecting the other people's evaluatios,2. When we select lovers' evaluations, the self-enhancement motive is stronger, and the students with low self-esteem have stronger self-enhancement motive than the students with high self-esteem , the students with low certainty of self-concept have stronger self-enhancement motive than their counterpart.3. When we select friends' evaluations, the self-verification motive is stronger, but self-esteem and the certainty of our self-concept have no adjustive effect on self-verification motive.4. Self-enhancement and self-verification can respectively predict the three well-being indexes: positive emotion ,negative emotion, satisfaction to life , but not the well-being index of collective self-esteem.