Date of Award
1991
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Vallacher, Robin R.
Abstract
A critical discrepancy in the self-evaluation literature concerns whether self-uncertainty leads to accurate or biased self-evaluations. After discussing the prior research which has rendered this discrepancy, I propose an experiment to reach a resolution to the discrepancy. Principles of action identification theory are used in proposing that the link between self-uncertainty and self-evaluation is moderated by the amount of evaluative threat inherent to the situation in which the self-evaluation is taking place. The experiment established that subjects who are induced to identify their actions in low level terms are more likely to exhibit biases when pursuing self-evaluations of their social ability, with the biases manifested in these subjects' preferences to be evaluated in non-diagnostic ways. The implications of this general finding and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Extent
68 p.
Recommended Citation
Kingree, Jeffrey Brooks, "Self-evaluation of social ability: An action identification analysis" (1991). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 229.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/229
Identifier
FADT14728
Comments
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science