自我肯定研究述评

A Review of Research about Self-affirmation

自我肯定是指通过肯定与威胁信息无关领域的自我价值,来维持自我整体性,从而降低防御反应。它可以通过完成自我价值观量表、描述重要的个人价值等方式来进行实验操纵。经过自我肯定的个体能更加客观、公正地处理威胁自我认同和群体认同的信息,促进个体的成长。这些作用可能是通过系统地思考说服信息的中央路径的认知加工来实现的。在未来的研究中,对个体最重要价值威胁情况下的自我肯定效应、自我肯定效应的多种机制的共同作用、自我肯定效应与群体肯定效应的区分以及自我与群体肯定效应的跨文化比较等方面还有待进一步的研究。

The researches of Self-affirmation were reviewed in this article. Self-affirmation is a method for maintaining or restoring one＇s global positive self-integrity from threats, which require affirming some important aspects of the self that is unrelated to the threaten domain. It can be done by accomplishing a value scale, describing an important value, engaging in activities that remind them of ＂who they are＂. The participants who affirmed were more openness and objective to the threaten self-identity or group-identity information, promoting personal well-being. These effects may be the result of central route processing on the persuasive information. There is ample opportunity to develop the effect of self-affirmation in the domain of the most important value had been threatened, the interaction of multiple mechanisms for self-affirmation, the differences between self-affirmation and group-affirmation, and the cross-cultural differences in the effect of selfor group-affirmation.