Date of Award
8-1970
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
C. Raymond Millimet
Second Advisor
D.T. Pedrini
Third Advisor
George Barger
Abstract
It has been suggested that self-esteem is a significant contributing variable in determining defensive behavior (Asch, 1948; Janis & Field, 1959; Lazarus & Longo, 1953; Rosenzweig, 1938; Sears, 1940). Several studies suggest that individuals of high and low self-ssteem (SE) manifest different patterns of response to the experience of success and failure (Altrochi, Parsons, & Dickoff, 1960; Stotland & Hillmer, 1962; Stotland, Thorley, Thomas, Cohen, & Zander, 1957). Further, Slock and Thomas (1955) and Altrochi, Parsons, and Dickoff (1960) have shown that persons with high SE tend to avoid threatening materials, while persons with low SE tend to approach and experience threatening materials. However, a coherent dynamic picture has yet to emerge from the total pattern of these relationships.
Recommended Citation
Gardner, Dennis F., "The manifest anxiety-defensiveness scale, induction of threat to self-esteem, and the resolution of dissonance" (1970). Student Work. 110.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/110
Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska at Omaha In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts.