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- Title
The unconscious cost of good fortune: implicit and explicit self-esteem, positive life events, and health.
- Authors
Shimizu, Mitsuru; Pelham, Brett W
- Abstract
J. D. Brown and K. L. McGill (1989) found that positive life events were associated with better health only for people high in self-esteem. Among people low in self-esteem, positive life events were associated with poorer health. The authors of this study replicated this finding in a self-report survey of 61 male and 110 female college students. In addition, they showed that implicit self-esteem moderated the relation between positive life events and self-reported health in the same fashion as explicit self-esteem did. Whereas people high in implicit self-esteem reported being healthier when they experienced more positive life events, people low in implicit self-esteem reported being healthier when they experienced fewer positive life events. Moreover, the effects of implicit self-esteem were statistically independent of the effects of explicit self-esteem.
- Publication
Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2004, Vol 23, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
0278-6133
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0278-6133.23.1.101