人格特质与外显自尊和内隐自尊的关系

THE RELATION BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SELF-ESTEEM UNDER CHINESE CULTURE

自尊被认为与人格特质存在紧密的联系。近年来社会认知研究领域发现 ,在“外显自尊”以外 ,个体还存在一个“内隐自尊”结构。由于中国人格结构与西方“大五”人格结构存在系统性的差异 ,本研究试图考察在中国文化下个体的人格特质与自尊水平之间的关系。结果发现 ,外显自尊主要与中国人人格结构中的“自我指向”的人格特点关系紧密 ;内隐自尊作为一个独立于外显自尊的内隐态度结构 。

Self-esteem is thought to be a stable evaluation toward self. A large number of studies found significant correlation between self-esteem and personality traits. In recent years scholars in social cognition studies have presented a structure called ”implicit self-esteem”, which is regarded to be independent from ”explicit self-esteem” measured by traditional self-report methods.In this study an attempt was made to disclose the relationship between personality traits and self-esteem, both explicit and implicit. Since previous studies have found a systematic discrepancy in personality structure from western Five-factor model (FFM) under Chinese culture-that is, Chinese personality is a seven-factor structure and the content of each factor is quite different from what in factor of FFM, an indigenous personality scale developed under Chinese culture based on verbal assumption, QZPS, was adopted to assess personality traits. Implicit self-esteem was measured by Implicit Association Test (IAT). The results indicated that self relevant personality traits in QZPS predicted explicit self-esteem. However, no correlations were significant between implicit self-esteem and personality traits. Possible explanations for the results were discussed.