The Relationship Between Stability of Self-esteem and Trust: the Mediation Effect of the Certainty to Predict Other’s Behavior
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Hsiao, Yi-Chieh
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Past researches suggest that self-esteem is not only the whole attitude of self, but
also a tool that help people to predict how others will treat them in the relationship.
However, this research concern that people with unstable self-esteem can’t predict
others’ behaviors for sure. When they have to trust others by predicting if they have
a good intend, those who have unstable self-esteem difficult construct a trust
relationship. This paper tests the hypothesis with two studies. Study 1 uses the
experimental method to manipulate the cause-and-effect between self-esteem stability
and trust. The result demonstrates that self-esteem unstable group tends to attribute
interpersonal rejection to lack of good intend. They also have more difficulty to trust
others and cooperate with others. Study 2 uses the questionnaire to test the
mediation effect of “the certainty to predict how others will treat us” between
self-esteem stability and trust. The result supports that the certainty to predict others
mediate from self-esteem stability to trust. General discussion suggests that the
academic importance of self-esteem stability and the certainty to predicting others on
trust researches.
Subjects
自尊穩定度
信任
預測他人行
為確定度
歸因
self-esteem stability
trust
the certainty to predict
attribution
Type
other
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