To Prove or to Improve ? Which Motive Distorts Perceptions of Personality Controllability ?  

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El-Alayli, Amani ; Gabriel, Shira

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 33 no. 11 (Nov. 2007), page 1572-1586.
Topik: motives; self - enhancement; controllability; malleability; improvement; validation
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This research extends past work on positive illusions and self - goals by examining motivated perceptions of how much control people think they have over changing their personality traits. A self - validation motivation should cause indivi duals to view their personality weaknesses as uncontrollable (to avoid blame for having them) and their personality strengths as controllable (to take credit for having them). A self - growth motivation should cause individuals to view their weaknesses as controllable (to view them as improvable) and their strengths as uncontrollable (to view them as unchanging). Studies 1 and 2 find evidence for self - validation in perceptions of trait controllability. Study 3 finds this pattern to be stronger for validation - seeking individuals but weaker for growth - seeking individuals. Studies 3 and 4 find that being primed with one's successful self - improvements or one's future self can attenuate the self - validation. The potential implications of distorted perceptions of trait controllability for both well - being and self - change are discussed.

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