Emotional well-being: The role of social achievement goals and self-esteem |
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Authors: | Sungok Serena Shim Cen Wang Jerrell C. Cassady |
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Affiliation: | Department of Educational Psychology, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, United States |
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Abstract: | The current study examined how self-esteem and social achievement goals affect individuals’ emotions independently and jointly using the data collected from 367 college students. Social development goals were related to positive emotions (i.e., love and joy). Social demonstration-avoid goals were related to maladaptive patterns (low levels of joy but high levels of fear, shame and sadness). Social demonstration-approach goals were positively associated with joy but had null relations with all other emotions. The results indicated that social development goals buffered students with low self-esteem against negative emotions and amplified the positive emotional experiences. In contrast, social demonstration-avoid goals were especially harmful for students with low self-esteem. |
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Keywords: | Social achievement goals Discrete emotions Emotional well-being Social development goals Social demonstration-approach goals Social demonstration-avoid goals Self-esteem |
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