We investigate whether the tendency to self-affirm in response to threat is associated with how people feel when they weigh themselves. People who were preoccupied with their weight anticipated feeling less negative (Studies 1a and 1b) and felt less negative (Study 2) when self-weighing if they typically affirmed their strengths. Study 3 experimentally manipulated self-affirmation. Although this intervention prompted affirmation of strengths it did not influence how participants felt when they subsequently weighed themselves. Together, the findings suggest that the tendency to spontaneously affirm strengths, but not values or social relations, is associated with the psychological outcomes of self-weighing and thus provide the basis for understanding how such individual differences might moderate how people respond in other self-evaluative contexts.

我们调查了应对威胁时自我肯定的倾向是否与人们称体重时的感受有关。如果体重过强的人通常会肯定自己的力量，那么他们在进行自我称重时会感到负面情绪较轻（研究1a和1b），负面情绪较轻（研究2）。研究3实验操纵的自我肯定。尽管这种干预促使人们肯定自己的力量，但并没有影响参与者随后称量自己时的感受。总之，这些发现表明，自发地肯定力量而不是价值观或社会关系的倾向与自我权衡的心理结果有关，从而为理解这种个体差异如何缓和人们在其他自我评价中的反应提供了基础。评价情境。