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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 605-615Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.4.605
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- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0809012] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH62376, MH056880] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [15750] Funding Source: Medline
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Self-enhancement is variously portrayed as a positive illusion that can foster health and longevity or as defensive neuroticism, that can have physiological-neuroendocrine costs. In a laboratory stress-challenge paradigm, the authors found that high self-enhancers had lower cardiovascular responses to stress. more rapid cardiovascular recovery, and lower baseline cortisol levels, consistent with the positive illusions predictions and counter to the predictions of the defensive neuroticism position. A second set of analyses, replicating the illusory mental health paradigm (J. Shedler. M. Mayman, & M. Manis, 1993), also did not support the defensive neuroticism hypothesis. The association between self-enhancement and cortisol was mediated by psychological resources; analyses of the cardiovascular results provided no definitive mediational pathway. Discussion centers on the potential stress-buffering effects of self-enhancing beliefs.
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