Superstars and me: Predicting the impact of role models on the self.
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 73 (1) , 91-103
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.73.1.91
Abstract
The authors propose that superstars are most likely to affect self-views when they are considered relevant. Relevant superstars provoke self-enhancement and inspiration when their success seems attainable but self-deflation when it seems unattainable. Participants' self-views were affected only when the star's domain of excellence was self-relevant. Relevant stars provoked self-enhancement and inspiration when their success seemed attainable in that participants either still had enough time to achieve comparable success or believed their own abilities could improve over time. Open-ended responses provided rich evidence of inspiration in these circumstances. Relevant stars provoked, if anything, self-deflation when their success seemed unattainable in that participants either had already missed the chance to achieve comparable success or viewed their abilities as fixed and so unlikely to improve. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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