When we feel good and bad about ourselves: Self-esteem memories across cultures |
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| Authors: | Zorana Ivcevic David B. Pillemer Qi Wang Yubo Hou Huizhen Tang Tamara Mohoric |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of New Hampshire , Durham, NH, USA zivcevic@unh.edu;3. University of New Hampshire , Durham, NH, USA;4. Cornell University , Ithaca, NY, USA;5. Peking University , China;6. University of Rijeka , Croatia |
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| Abstract: | Young adults in the United States, Croatia, and China described personal episodes of times when they felt especially good or bad about themselves. These self-esteem memories were either recent (episodes that occurred during the previous 4 weeks) or remote (episodes that occurred between the ages of 10 and 15). Systematic content differences between memories of positive and negative self-worth were apparent primarily for remote rather than for recent memories. Across cultures, long-lasting positive memories frequently represented achievement themes, whereas negative memories frequently represented social themes. Links between achievement success and positive self-regard, and between social distress and negative self-regard, are explained using theories of self-esteem and autobiographical memory. |
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| Keywords: | Autobiographical memory Self Recent versus remote memories Culture |
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