| Literature DB >> 14756609 |
Mitsuru Shimizu1, Brett W Pelham.
Abstract
J. D. Brown and K. L. McGill (1989) found that positive life events were associated with better health only for people high in self-esteem. Among people low in self-esteem, positive life events were associated with poorer health. The authors of this study replicated this finding in a self-report survey of 61 male and 110 female college students. In addition, they showed that implicit self-esteem moderated the relation between positive life events and self-reported health in the same fashion as explicit self-esteem did. Whereas people high in implicit self-esteem reported being healthier when they experienced more positive life events, people low in implicit self-esteem reported being healthier when they experienced fewer positive life events. Moreover, the effects of implicit self-esteem were statistically independent of the effects of explicit self-esteem. (c) 2004 APA, all rights reservedEntities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 14756609 DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.23.1.101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Health Psychol ISSN: 0278-6133 Impact factor: 4.267