Abstract
There is a growing debate about the relationship between self-perceived agency-communion and self-esteem. One viewpoint for this debate is offered by the Dual Perspective Model, a novel theoretical framework that introduces the agent and the recipient as two fundamental perspectives in social perception. Building on this model, we expected higher importance of self-ascribed agency for self-esteem in the agent perspective than in the recipient perspective and a higher importance of self-ascribed communion for self-esteem in the recipient than in the agent perspective. However, the meta-analysis of six experiments (N = 659, 68% females) showed no interaction of the perspectives and self-ascribed agency and communion in predicting self-esteem. These findings demonstrate that the relationship between agency-communion and self-esteem seems to be fairly independent of one’s temporary mindset.
Highlights
There is strong evidence in the published literature that self-esteem is determined by how one evaluates oneself on the agency dimension [1,2,3]
In the present paper we examine one such moderator–taking the agent versus the recipient perspective, which is based on a new theoretical framework, the Dual Perspective Model by Abele and Wojciszke [1,7]
The participants in the agent perspective condition agreed with the statements that during the study they had a sense of influence and control over the situation, that they were not reliant on the other participant, and that they were not passive to a higher extent than the participants in the recipient perspective condition, t(50) = 17.68, p = .000, d = 5.00
Summary
There is strong evidence in the published literature that self-esteem is determined by how one evaluates oneself on the agency dimension [1,2,3]. The role of self-ascribed communion is more ambiguous, though. There is still not much research on the moderators of the link between agency-communion and self-esteem. In the present paper we examine one such moderator–taking the agent versus the recipient perspective, which is based on a new theoretical framework, the Dual Perspective Model by Abele and Wojciszke [1,7]. This extends our recent work which documented that taking the agent perspective moderates the relationship between self-ascribed agency and self-esteem [8]. The current article addresses the same issue but this time we used an experimental and behavioral manipulation [9] of the agent versus recipient perspective, rather than measure it as an individual difference (a habitual preference to take an action and influence others)
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