The Developmental Costs of High Self-Esteem for Antisocial Children

Autor/inn/en	Menon, Madhavi; Tobin, Desiree D.; Corby, Brooke C.; Menon, Meenakshi; Hodges, Ernest V. E.; Perry, David G.
Titel	The Developmental Costs of High Self-Esteem for Antisocial Children
Quelle	In: Child Development, 78 (2007) 6, S.1627-1639 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01089.x
Schlagwörter	Aggression; Mothers; Longitudinal Studies; Self Esteem; Child Development; Antisocial Behavior; Hypothesis Testing; Parent Child Relationship; Personality Traits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Kindesentwicklung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	Two hypotheses--high self-esteem leads children to act on antisocial cognitions (disposition-activating hypothesis) and high self-esteem leads children to rationalize antisocial conduct (disposition-rationalizing hypothesis)--were investigated in two longitudinal studies. In Study 1 (N = 189; mean age = 11.1 years), antisocial behavior was aggression; in Study 2 (N = 407; mean age = 10.8 years) it was avoidance of the mother. In both studies, there was little evidence for the disposition-activating hypothesis but considerable support for the disposition-rationalizing hypothesis. Over time, aggressive children with high self-esteem increasingly valued the rewards that aggression offers and belittled their victims, and avoidant children with high self-esteem increasingly viewed their mother as harassing and uninvolved. For antisocial children, high self-esteem carries costs. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10