Self-Evaluation and Affect for Differing Gender Pairs
With the added pressure to succeed in the world today, individuals have a vested interest to perform at their best and strive to outperform the increasing competition, however, this can lead to critical evaluations when a desired outcome is not achieved. The self-Evaluation Maintenance (SEM) Model postulates that self-evaluation is highly impacted by relationships with others and individuals behave in a way that will maintain or heighten self-evaluation (Tesser, Millar, & Moore, 1988). The SEM model suggests self-evaluation can result in two outcomes: the reflection process and the comparison process (Tesser et al., 1988). These processes are influenced by closeness of another individual, …show more content…
In one study, 30 participants evaluated ratings of words which acted as measures of affect and it was suggested that under low-relevance conditions a friend’s superior performance resulted in more positive affect than the friend performing at the same level or being outperformed by a stranger (Tesser et al., 1988). These findings suggest that affect and self-evaluation have a relationship, whereby, reflection is attributed to high affect and comparison is related to low …show more content…
Adolescent girls and boys are bombarded with images of how they should look, behave and their place in society which impacts on their self-evaluation, therefore, this study wants to investigate if comparison still occurs when individuals compare themselves to others with different genders. The study will aim to use the SEM framework to inflict a comparison and reflection situation on participants, where, they are with a close other, in a relevant or irrelevant domain and they perform poorly, to investigate the influence on affect for varying gender
With the added pressure to succeed in the world today, individuals have a vested interest to perform at their best and strive to outperform the increasing competition, however, this can lead to critical evaluations when a desired outcome is not achieved. The self-Evaluation Maintenance (SEM) Model postulates that self-evaluation is highly impacted by relationships with others and individuals behave in a way that will maintain or heighten self-evaluation (Tesser, Millar, & Moore, 1988). The SEM model suggests self-evaluation can result in two outcomes: the reflection process and the comparison process (Tesser et al., 1988). These processes are influenced by closeness of another individual, …show more content…
In one study, 30 participants evaluated ratings of words which acted as measures of affect and it was suggested that under low-relevance conditions a friend’s superior performance resulted in more positive affect than the friend performing at the same level or being outperformed by a stranger (Tesser et al., 1988). These findings suggest that affect and self-evaluation have a relationship, whereby, reflection is attributed to high affect and comparison is related to low …show more content…
Adolescent girls and boys are bombarded with images of how they should look, behave and their place in society which impacts on their self-evaluation, therefore, this study wants to investigate if comparison still occurs when individuals compare themselves to others with different genders. The study will aim to use the SEM framework to inflict a comparison and reflection situation on participants, where, they are with a close other, in a relevant or irrelevant domain and they perform poorly, to investigate the influence on affect for varying gender