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Self-enhancement and psychological adjustment: A meta-analytic review
Dufner, Michael
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Gebauer, Jochen E.
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Denissen, Jaap
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DOI:
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868318756467
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URL:
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10888...
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Additional URL:
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https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417544/1/Dufner_Gebaue...
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Document Type:
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Article
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Year of publication:
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2019
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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Personality and Social Psychology Review
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Volume:
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23
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Issue number:
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1
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Page range:
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48-72
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Place of publication:
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Thousand Oaks, CA
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Publishing house:
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Sage Publications
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ISSN:
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1088-8683 , 1532-7957
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department A
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Subject:
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300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
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Abstract:
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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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