APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Flawed or Valuable but Not Both: ‘Effortlessly Perfect’ Self-Presentation Is Associated with Low Integration of Self-Views in Daily Life
- Kathy Berenson
Gettysburg College - Meagan Lupolt
Gettysburg College - Tess Anderson
Gettysburg College - Melissa Menna
Gettysburg College - Jillian Glazer
Gettysburg College
Abstract
Undergraduate women who completed measures of effortlessly perfect self-presentation participated in a 12-day diary study to assess the within-person association between viewing themselves as flawed and as valuable. Pursuing an effortlessly perfect image is a vulnerability characterized by a more polarized and unstable self-concept.
Self