Self-enhancement and psychological adjustment: A meta-analytic review


Dufner, Michael ; Gebauer, Jochen E. ; Sedikides, Constantine ; Denissen, Jaap



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868318756467
URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10888...
Weitere URL: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417544/1/Dufner_Gebaue...
Dokumenttyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe: Personality and Social Psychology Review
Band/Volume: 23
Heft/Issue: 1
Seitenbereich: 48-72
Ort der Veröffentlichung: Thousand Oaks, CA
Verlag: Sage Publications
ISSN: 1088-8683 , 1532-7957
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: Englisch
Einrichtung: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES - Arbeitsbereich A
Fachgebiet: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Abstract: This article advances the debate about costs and benefits of self-enhancement (the tendency to maintain unrealistically positive self-views) with a comprehensive meta-analytic review (299 samples, N = 126,916). The review considers relations between self-enhancement and personal adjustment (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, depression), and between self-enhancement and interpersonal adjustment (informant reports of domain-general social valuation, agency, communion). Self-enhancement was positively related to personal adjustment, and this relation was robust across sex, age, cohort, and culture. Important from a causal perspective, self-enhancement had a positive longitudinal effect on personal adjustment. The relation between self-enhancement and interpersonal adjustment was nuanced. Self-enhancement was positively related to domain-general social valuation at 0, but not long, acquaintance. Communal self-enhancement was positively linked to informant judgments of communion, whereas agentic self-enhancement was linked positively to agency but negatively to communion. Overall, the results suggest that self-enhancement is beneficial for personal adjustment but a mixed blessing for interpersonal adjustment.




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