Locus of Control and Chronic Self-Esteem as Determinants of Acceptance of Positive and Negative Self-Evaluative Feedback
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 3 (2) , 236-239
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727700300216
Abstract
Internals and externals with differing self-esteem dispositions were administered a series of personality tests and subsequently provided with bogus reports by a clinical psychologist containing either positive or negative information about their personalities. Consistent with self-esteem theory, more low than high self-esteem internals showed willingness to undertake remedial behavior to solve their problems, while there were no differences in the behavior of high and low self- esteem externals under the same circumstances.Keywords
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