Self-Esteem The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard

Summarizing and integrating the major empirical research of the past twenty years, this volume presents a thorough review of the subject, with a special focus on what sets people with low self-esteem apart from others. As the subject is central to the und

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THE PLENUM SERIES IN SOCIAL I CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Series Editor: C. R. Snyder University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas

DESIRE FOR CONTROL Personality, Social, and Clinical Perspectives Jerry M. Burger HOW PEOPLE CHANGE Inside and Outside Therapy Edited by Rebecca C. Curtis and George Stricker SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIORS Experimental Research, Clinical Impressions, and Practical Implications Edited by Rebecca C. Curtis SELF-ESTEEM The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard Edited by Roy F. Baumeister SELF-HANDICAPPING The Paradox That Isn't Raymond L. Higgins, C. R. Snyder, and Steven Berglas THE SELF-KNOWER A Hero under Control Robert A. Wicklund anJ Martina Eckert

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SELF-ESTEEM THE PUZZLE OF LOW SELF-REGARD

EDITED BY

Roy F. BAUMEISTER Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio

PLENUM PRESS. NEW YORK AND LONDON

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Self-estee. : the puzzle of low self-regard / edIted by Roy F. Bau.e 1star. p. c •. -- (The Plenu. serIes In socIal/clInIcal psychology> Includes bIblIographIcal references and Index. ISBN 978-1-4684-8958-3

ISBN 978-1-4684-8956-9 (eBook)

DOl 10.1007/978-1-4684-8956-9

1. Self-estee.. I. Bau.elster, Roy F. II. SerIes. [DNLM: 1. Self Concept. 2. BehavIor. SF 697 S4654 19931 RC455.4.S42S443 1993 155.2'32--dc20 DNLM/DLC for LIbrary of Congress 93-7043 CIP

ISBN 978-1-4684-8958-3

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CONTRIBUTORS

GLENN AFFLECK, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030 NALINI AMBADY, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 ROY F. BAUMEISTER, Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7123 BRUCE BLAINE, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260 JOEL BROCKNER, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, 715 Uris Hall, New York, New York 10027 JONATHON D. BROWN, Department of Psychology, NI-25, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 JENNIFER D. CAMPBELL, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 JENNIFER CROCKER, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260 CHRIS DE LA RONDE, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 SUSAN HARTER, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 South R