TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - High implicit self‐esteem is not necessarily advantageous: discrepancies between explicit and implicit self‐esteem and their relationship with anger expression and psychological health
JO  - European journal of personality
A1  - Schröder‐Abé, Michela
A1  - Rudolph, Almut
A1  - Schütz, Astrid
SP  - 319
EP  - 339
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - Two studies investigated how discrepancies between implicit and explicit self-esteem are related to mental and physical health. We found that, compared to congruent self-esteem, discrepant self-esteem was related to more anger suppression, a more depressive attributional style, more nervousness, and more days of impaired health. The result applies not only to fragile (high explicit, low implicit) self-esteem, but also to damaged (low explicit, high implicit) self-esteem. These findings show that high implicit self-esteem is not necessarily advantageous. In individuals with low explicit self-esteem having high implicit self-esteem was related to more health problems than having low implicit self-esteem. Taken together the results suggest that discrepancies between implicit and explicit SE are detrimental to mental and physical health. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> 
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SN  - 0890-2070
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.626
ID  - ref1
ER  -