Correlational Study On College Students' Explicit Self-esteem,implicit Self-esteem And Impression Management

Impression management is an important research question that some fields such as sociology and psychology pay close attention to, which is a process that one attempts to influence others'impression towards him during their social intercourse. Impression management is not a swindle, for the actor may be unconscious when he proceeds impression management. And it is affected by these factors such as demography, personality, self-esteem and situations and so on.Self-esteem, an emotional evaluation and attitude experience towards oneself, influences personal impression management. In past researches, researchers noticed the relation between self-esteem and impression management. However, self-esteem has two forms of expression——explicit self-esteem and implicit Self-esteem. What is the relation between each form of expression and impression management separately? Are they equally related on their influencing impression management ? And how to cultivate these two forms of expression of self-esteem to improve impression management and harmonize college students'interpersonal relationship and social skills? This paper is expected to solve all these problems.The objects of research are sophomores and seniors of undergraduate students in Henan University. And the research applies the methods combining Questionnaire and Implicit Association Test and uses statistical software SPSS.13.0 to analyze data, including descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and hypothesis testing . This research mainly investigates the relations between college students'explicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem and impression management.Conclusions are drawn through above research as following: First, college students'impression management correlates with both implicit self-esteem and explicit self-esteem; Second, compared with explicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem shows a stronger active tendency towards oneself while the implicit self-esteem effect has generality.