The cognitive antecedents of task-related self-esteem
- Keywords:
- social behavior, social psychology, cognitive, antecedents, task-related, self-esteem, behaviors, individual's, work, roles, competence, incompetence, importance, unimportance, control, non-control, job, interview, workplace
- Abstract
- This study tests the hypothesis that behaviors engaged in as part of an individual's work roles impact the cognitions that are the antecedents of task-related self-esteem. This experiment varied participants' cognitions of competence/incompetence, importance/unimportance, and control/non-control within the context of role playing in a job interview. Results indicate that although the cognitions were influenced as a consequence of role-playing on the task, manipulation of the cognitions had no influence on task-specific self-esteem. However, perceptions of the task-related cognitions were related to self-esteem ratings. Discussion focuses on implications of these findings for research on workplace self-esteem.
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- 1997-11-01
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- Volume 25, 1997, Issue 4
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