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

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Personality/Emotion

  • 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

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