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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 9,
1275-1286 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/01461672022812012
Hopes Dashed and Dreams Fulfilled: Contingencies of Self-Worth and Graduate School Admissions
Jennifer Crocker
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, jcrocker{at}umich.edu
Samuel R. Sommers
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Riia K. Luhtanen
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
James (1890/1950) argued that self-esteem fluctuates around a typical level in response to successes and failures in domains on which self-worth is staked. In a test of James’s hypothesis, 32 students applying to graduate school completed a measure of contingencies of self-worth, and then for 2 months reported global self-esteem twice a week and any day they heard from a graduate program. As predicted, participants who were higher in basing their self-esteem on academic competence showed greater increases in self-esteem on acceptance days and greater decreases in self-esteem on rejection days than participants low in this contingency of self-worth. Daily affect was significantly related to daily self-esteem, but this association was stronger for students who based their self-esteem on academic competence, suggesting that affect and self-esteem are more strongly related when events are relevant to one’s contingencies of self-worth. Implications for research on stability of self-esteem are considered.
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