高自我价值感的负效应:自我危机与攻击

The Negative Effects of High Feeling of Self worth: Threatened Egotism and Aggression

与低自我价值感造成攻击相反的高自我价值感攻击理论认为:攻击通常是自我危机的结果,即对自己非常有利的自我概念遭到他人质疑时的现象。名不副实的自我优越观念最易产生自我危机而导致攻击,其机制是愤怒外导。

The aggression theory of high feeling of self worth, contrary to that of low feeling of self worth, suggests that aggressive behavior is most commonly the result of threatened egotism, a phenomenon occurring when highly favorable views of self are doubted and disputed. Inflated sense of self superiority is most prone to cause threatened egotism and hence aggressive behavior. The mechanism involves directing anger outward as a way of avoiding a downward revision of self concept.