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Elliot and Church (2003) determined that people adopt defensive pessimism or self-handicapping strategies for the same reason: to deal with anxiety-provoking situations. Self-handicapping is a cognitive strategy in which people construct obstacles to their own success to keep failure from damaging their self-esteem. The difference between self ...
People differ in the extent to which they self-handicap [8] and most research on individual differences has used the Self-Handicapping Scale (SHS). [9] [10] [11] The SHS was developed as a means of measuring individuals' tendency to employ excuses or create handicaps as a means to protect one's self-esteem.
The failure-avoidant students strive to look competent, utilising failure avoiding strategies such as defensive pessimism and self-handicapping, as inability is a big threat to one's sense of self-worth. [13] Instructing in a way that separates student's obsession of ability from willingness to learn is considered as an important role of ...
Self-handicapping and interpersonal trade-offs: The effects of claimed self-handicaps on observers' performance evaluations and feedback. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 1042 - 1050. Rhodewalt, F. (1998). Self-presentation and the phenomenal self: The "carryover" effect revisited.
Regardless of the causes of self-handicapping the self-defeating end result remains the same – the integrity and quality of a task outcome or evaluation is compromised in order that the meaning of that outcome appears more agreeable. Behavioural self-handicapping is a good demonstration of active self-deception. [90]
Arkin’s research concerned the self in social interaction, with special emphasis on the uncertain self (self-doubt; self-handicapping and overachievement; personal security and insecurity in the post 9/11 era). Arkin developed the Subjective Overachievement Scale [2] in 2001 to tap feelings of self-doubt coupled with a performance outcome ...
The Titans' defense couldn't take the ball away against a rookie quarterback in his NFL debut, couldn't take the ball away from a 40-year-old with limited mobility coming off an Achilles injury ...
Defensive communication leads to the degrading of discourse in a group. Defensive communication is a communicative behavior that occurs within relationships, work environments, and social groups [1] [2] when an individual reacts in a defensive manner in response to a self-perceived flaw or a threat from outsiders.