Pattern of Explicit Self-enhancement of Chinese Undergraduate
- VernacularTitle:中国大学生的外显自我增强模式
- Author:
Fei TENG
;
Dengfeng WANG
;
Li ZHOU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Self-enhancement;
Attribution;
Relationship partner
- From:Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology
1993;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: Self-enhancement is a kind of motive that urges people to attend exclusively to the positive aspects of himself,it is so intense that individuals even tend to distort the threatening information to some degree so that they can maintain a positive self-view. This research is to investigate the pattern of self-enhancement of Chinese people. Methods: Self-enhancement was measured by requiring participants to make self attribution as well as other attribution of their success and failure on eight factors. Results: There existed strong self-enhancement motive in Chinese individuals. Specifically,Chinese undergraduates attribute their success to inner factors such as personality and effort. This trends also evident in the conditions in which participants were asked to speculate the attribute pattern of other people like his/her mother on their own success and failure. Conclusion: Chinese undergraduates tend to enhance the self-image in other people's eyes.
