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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Computational Social Science

Background:

  • Self-presentation behaviors are linked to self-esteem.
  • The precise relationship between verbal behaviors and self-esteem lacks fine-grained linguistic analysis.
  • Inconsistent findings suggest self-presentation content may moderate this association.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between verbal behaviors during self-presentation and self-esteem.
  • To explore how linguistic features predict self-esteem.
  • To examine the moderating role of self-presentation content (agency vs. communion).

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted involving self-presentation tasks.
  • Computational linguistic techniques extracted twelve linguistic features (lexical, syntactic, semantic).
  • Ridge regression and machine learning methods analyzed the relationship between linguistic features and self-esteem.

Main Results:

  • Linguistic features, including emotion-laden sentences and adverbials, consistently correlated with self-esteem.
  • Agency-based self-presentation linguistic features predicted self-esteem more strongly (R²=0.106) than communion-based features (R²=0.042).
  • Study 2 confirmed stronger generalizability for agency-based self-presentation.

Conclusions:

  • Verbal behaviors during self-presentation are associated with self-esteem.
  • The content of self-presentation, specifically agency versus communion, moderates this association.
  • Agency-focused self-presentation appears to be a more expressive channel for self-esteem.