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Serena Chen1, Tammy English, Kaiping Peng

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA. serchen@berkeley.edu

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|June 2, 2006
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People seek to confirm their specific self-views in situations and relationships, not just global self-conceptions. This self-verification tendency extends to contextualized self-views, confirming core self-beliefs.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Most self-verification research focuses on global self-conceptions.
  • Contextualized self-views (in specific situations/relationships) are less studied.
  • Self-verification theory posits a desire to confirm one's self-views.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate self-verification of contextualized self-views.
  • To examine if individuals verify situation-specific and relationship-specific self-views.
  • To explore the role of dialectical self-construal and gender in contextualized self-verification.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Assessed bias towards verifying feedback for situation-specific self-views based on dialectical self-definition.
  • Study 2: Examined gender differences in bias towards verifying feedback for relationship-specific self-views, comparing with global self-views.

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Main Results:

  • Individuals defining the self dialectically showed bias towards verifying negative, situation-specific self-views.
  • Women, more than men, showed bias towards verifying negative, relationship-specific self-views.
  • This bias for contextualized self-views was not observed for global self-views.

Conclusions:

  • Self-verification extends to core self-conceptions in contextualized forms.
  • Individual differences and the nature of selfhood influence contextualized self-verification.
  • Findings support a broader understanding of self-verification processes.