The Influence Of Contingency Self-worth On Subjective Well-being: The Mediating Role Of Self-objectification

Sense of self-worth is play a main role in one’s life,and people do many things to improve their sense of self-worth.Recently,researchers have found that the contingent field of self-worth can explain the influence of certain things on personal emotional experience and self-perception more than the level of self-esteem.The contingency of self-worth refers to what people think they have met or achieved to be a valuable person,that is,a conditional sense of self-worth.It may depend on the degree of meeting certain social standards or expectations.For college students,it may come from areas such as appearance,schoolwork,recognition of others,competition,family support,and virtue.People also pay some price in the pursuit of,Such as continuous monitoring of one’s own behavior and feelings of shame for oneself,affect the individual’s subjective well-being.However,which areas people consider as important sources of their sense of value are different,and different areas will have different effects on self-esteem.Studies have pointed out that self-worth contingency has a negative impact on one’s subjective well-being,but the mechanism of action is rarely explored.Therefore,this series of research aims to explore how self-worth contingency affects individual self-esteem.The psychological mechanism of self-assessment,as well as the individual’s evaluation of their own attractiveness,that is,whether the level of self-evaluation of attractiveness has a moderating effect.Research one aims to explore the distribution of the contingent sense of self-worth among Chinese college students,the relationship between different fields and self-objectification and subjective well-being,and whether there are gender differences.Using the questionnaire survey method,the self-worth contingency questionnaire(CSWS)is used to measure the degree of individual self-worth contingency,the body monitoring scale(OBCS)is used to measure the individual’s self-objectification level,and the body shame scale(OBCS)is used to measure the feeling The degree of physical shame,the subjective well-being scale(SWB)measures an individual’s life satisfaction,positive emotions and negative emotions.The results show that the higher the individual’s sense of self-worth,the more inclined to physical monitoring,which leads to physical shame,and then experiences higher negative emotions,lower life satisfaction and positive emotions.The second study aims to explore whether self-objectification and body shame have a mediating effect between self-worth contingency and subjective well-being,and whether the level of self-perceived attractiveness can regulate the relationship between self-worth contingency and subjective well-being.The research adopted questionnaire survey method,used the self-perceived attractiveness questionnaire(SPA)to measure the individual’s self-perceived attractiveness,and still used the self-worth contingency questionnaire(CSWS),body monitoring scale(OBCS),and body shame scale(OBCS)And the Subjective Well-Being Scale(SWB)measures the degree of individual self-worth contingency,the level of self-objectification,the individual’s life satisfaction,and the positive and negative emotions experienced.The results show that self-objectification and physical shame have a significant mediating effect between self-worth contingency and life satisfaction,positive emotions,and negative emotions.The level of self-perceived attractiveness is predicted by body monitoring to predict life satisfaction,and body shame predicts negative emotions.Body shame has a significant moderating effect on predicting life satisfaction.Through interviews,it is found that people will flexibly change their sense of self-worth in the areas of appearance,academic work,competition,and recognition by others,and additionally discovered that people will focus on personal goals and growth areas.Just as research has found that when the sense of self-worth is contingent in these areas,people will make efforts to pursue achievements in this area,and they will have positive emotional experiences such as "happy" and "sense of accomplishment" when they get satisfactory results.When you get unsatisfactory results,there will be negative emotional experiences such as “lost”,“sad”,thinking that you are a “loser,” and the interviewees mentioned that when the power is changed in the field of appearance and recognition by others,the pursuit will become a "burden".