| The main aim of the study is to explore how self-affirmation and self-esteem to effect self-enhancemen. By this method,it helps us to understand the relationship of self-affirmation, self-esteem and effect self-enhancemen. This paper used the Chinese version of Quality assessment scale as self-enhancement scale, which used by Kobayashi in cross-culture study. And this paper used Chinese revision of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale as explicit self-esteem scale, and according to the Implicit Association Test to measure implicit self-esteem level.Past studies showed that self-affirmation could improve self-esteem level, but there have long been controversies with the relationship between self-esteem and self improvement , so dose the relationship between self-affirmation and self-enhancement.So in the preliminary research, I need to figure out the relationship between self-esteem and self improvement by questionnaire Investigation, and the result showed they have marked positive correlationship. And then based on this positive correlation, I explore how self-affirmation and explicit self-esteem impact self-enhancement. In study 1,I propose self-affirmation improve self-enhancement significantly. Study 2 is based on the study 1,it further explore how self-affirmation and implicit self-esteem impact self-enhancement. That is, the research from two paths of explicit and implicit to explore the relationship of self-affirmation,self-esteem and self-enhancement. The results of the three studies were as follows:1. There are significant trends of enhancement in terms of University students’self-evaluation which includes direct and indirect self-enhancement. They tend to evaluate best friend more positively, which accelerate more positive evaluation of themselves. The direct enhancement have gender differences.2. University students’ explicit self-esteem is significantly and positively correlated with their self-enhancemen, and their implicit self-esteem is significantly and positively correlated with indirect self-enhancemen. Explicit self-esteem level and implicit self-esteem level have gender differences, but the direction is different.3. Self-affirmation significantly promotes the level of explicit self-esteem and direct self-enhancement, no matter important traits or unimportant traits.4. Explicit self-esteem has greater effect on self-enhancement than implicit self-esteem. Explicit self-esteem has a significant effect on direct self-enhancement of important traits, the direct self-enhancement of non-essential traits, the indirect self-enhancement of non-essential traits. And the implicit self-esteem only has a significant effect on the indirect self-enhancement of non-essential traits. |
