Perceived Appraisals by Others, Self-Esteem, and Anxiety

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Abstract
Questionnaire data from 595 male and female college students were used to test four hypotheses regarding interpersonal sources of anxiety—i.e., that high anxiety occurs as a function of (a) low subjective public-esteem (perceived negative appraisals of self by others); (b) low self-esteem; (c) discrepancies where subjective public-esteem is more negative than self-esteem; and (d) absolute discrepancies between subjective public-esteem and self-esteem, regardless of evaluative direction. The results suggested that level of self-esteem and absolute discrepancies between subjective public-esteem and self-esteem are important and relatively independent factors in anxiety.