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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 95, Issue 3, Pages 608-627Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.3.608
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self-esteem; relationships; conflict; contingent
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Relationship-contingent self-esteem (RCSE) emerges from perspectives on authenticity, need fulfillment, and relationship functioning and is an unhealthy form of self-esteem that depends on one's relationship. Four studies provided evidence of convergent, discriminant, incremental, and predictive validity for RCSE. Study 1. tested associations between RCSE and several conceptually related and unrelated constructs in multiple samples. In Study 2, the authors employed an event-contingent diary procedure to examine reports of self-esteem as a function of everyday relationship events. The association between event valence and changes in self-esteem became stronger with RCSE, and this interaction remained controlling for several parallel interactions by other constructs. Study 3 employed an interval-contingent diary procedure and found support for a mediation model in which the moderating role of RCSE largely occurred through momentary emotions, which in turn predicted momentary self-esteem. Study 4 sampled couples and found that partners who were both higher, in RCSE felt more committed but not more satisfied or close.
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