The Effects of Social Identity on the Self-Set Goals and Task Performance of High and Low Self-Esteem Individuals

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-26

  Pilegge, Anthony J ^a   Holtz, Rolf ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002567371     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1997.2689     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Abrams D., Hogg M. A. Comments on the motivational status of self-esteem in social identity and intergroup discrimination. European Journal of Social Psychology. 18:1988;317-338.
2. Baumeister R. F. Self-esteem: The puzzle of low self-regard. 1993;Plenum Press. New York.
3. Baumeister R. F., Heatherton T. F., Tice D. M. When ego threats lead to self-regulation failure: Negative consequences of high self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 64:1993;141-156.
4. Baumeister R. F., Tice D. M. Self-esteem and responses to success and failure: Subsequent performance and intrinsic motivation. Journal of Personality. 53:1985;450-467.
5. Baumgardner A. H., Kaufman C. M., Levy P. E. Regulating affect interpersonally: When low self-esteem leads to greater enhancement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 56:1989;907-921.
6. Brockner J. Self-esteem at work: Research, theory, and practice. 1988;Lexington Books, Lexington.
7. Byrne D., Clore G. L., Smeaton G. The attraction hypothesis: Do similar attitudes affect anything? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 51:1986;1167-1170.
8. Carroll S. J., Tosi H. L. Goal characteristics and personality factors in a management by objectives program. Administrative Science Quarterly. 15:1970;295-305.
9. Codol J. P. On the so-called "superior conformity of the self" behavior: 20 experimental investigations. European Journal of Social Psychology. 5:1975;457-501.
10. Crocker J., Blaine B., Luhtanen R. Prejudice, intergroup behaviour and self-esteem: Enhancement and protection motives. Group motivation: Social psychological perspectives. 1993;Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead. p. 52-67.
11. Crocker J., Thompson L. L., McGraw K. M., Ingerman C. Downward comparison, prejudice, and evaluations of others: Effects of self-esteem and threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 52:1987;907-916.
12. Diehl M. The minimal group paradigm: Theoretical explanations and empirical findings. European Review of Social Psychology. 1:1990;263-292.
13. Dossett D. L., Latham G. P., Mitchell T. R. Effects of assigned vs. participatively set goals, knowledge of results, and individual differences on employee behavior when goal difficulty is held constant. Journal of Applied Psychology. 64:1979;291-298.
14. Emmons R. A., McAdams D. P. Personal strivings and motive dispositions: Exploring the links. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 17:1991;648-654.
15. Festinger L. A theory of social comparison processes. Human Relations. 7:1954;117-140.
16. Festinger L. Wish, expectation, and group standards as factors influencing level of aspiration. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 37:1942;184-200.
17. Hall D. T., Foster L. W. A psychological success cycle and goal setting: Goals, performance, and attitudes. Academy of Management Journal. 20:1977;282-290.
18. Hewstone M. Causal attribution: From cognitive processes to collective beliefs. 1989;Blackwell, Oxford.
19. Hogg M. A. The social psychology of group cohesiveness: From attraction to social identity. 1992;Harvester Wheatsheaf, London.
20. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Social identification: A social psychology of intergroup relations and group processes. 1988;Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
21. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Social motivation, self-esteem and social identity. Abrams D., Hogg M. A. Social identity theory: Constructive and critical advances. 1990;28-47 Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead.
22. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Towards a single-process uncertainty-reduction model of social motivation in groups. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Group motivation: Social psychological perspectives. 1993;173-190 Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead.
23. Hogg M. A., Cooper-Shaw L., Holzworth D. W. Group prototypicality and depersonalized attraction in small interactive groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 19:1993;452-465.
24. Hogg M. A., Sunderland J. Self-esteem and intergroup discrimination in the minimal group paradigm. British Journal of Social Psychology. 30:1991;51-62.
25. Hollenbeck J. J., Brief A. P. The effects of individual differences and goal origin on goal setting and performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 40:1987;392-414.
26. Holtz R. Length of group membership, assumed similarity, and opinion certainty: The dividend for veteran members. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 27:1997;539-555.
27. Kelley T. L. The selection of upper and lower groups for the validation of test items. Journal of Educational Psychology. 30:1939;17-24.
28. Korman A. K. Toward a hypothesis of work behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology. 54:1970;31-41.
29. Locke E. A., Latham G. P. A theory of goal setting and task performance. 1990;Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
30. Locke E. A., Shaw K. N., Saari L. M., Latham G. P. Goal setting and task performance: 1969-1980. Psychological Bulletin. 90:1981;125-152.
31. Lott A. J., Lott B. E. Group cohesiveness as interpersonal attraction. Psychological Bulletin. 64:1965;259-309.
32. Luhtanen R., Crocker J. A collective self-esteem scale: Self-evaluation of one's social identity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 18:1992;302-318.
33. Matsui T., Kakuyama T., Onglatco M. L. U. Effects of goals and feedback on performance in groups. Journal of Applied Psychology. 72:1987;407-415.
34. Moreland R., Levine J., Cini M. Group socialization: The role of commitment. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Group motivation: Social psychological perspectives. 1993;105-129 Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead.
35. Ostrom T. M., Sedikides C. Out-group homogeneity effects in natural and minimal groups. Psychological Bulletin. 112:1992;536-552.
36. Pelham B. W., Wachsmutt J. O. The waxing and waning of the social self: Assimilation and contrast in social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 69:1995;825-838.
37. Pierce J. L., Gardner D. G., Cummings L. L., Dunham R. B. Organization-based self-esteem: Construct definition, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal. 32:1989;622-648.
38. C. L. Reese, 1993, Social support, Projected attitude similarity, and opinion certainty.
39. Rosenberg M. Society and the adolescent self-image. 1965;Princeton University Press, Princeton.
40. Ruscher J. B., Fiske S. T., Miki H., Van Manen S. Individuating processes in competition: Interpersonal versus intergroup. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 17:1991;595-605.
41. Shrauger J. S. Self-esteem and reactions to being observed by others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 72:1972;192-200.
42. Shrauger J. S. Responses to evaluation as a function of initial self-perceptions. Psychological Bulletin. 82:1975;581-596.
43. Shrauger J. S., Rosenberg S. E. Self-esteem and the effects of success and failure feedback on performance. Journal of Personality. 38:1970;404-417.
44. Tajfel H. Experiments in intergroup discrimination. Scientific American. 223:1970;96-102.
45. Tang T. L. P., Sarsfield-Baldwin L. The effect of self-esteem, task label, and performance feedback on goal setting, certainty and attributions. Journal of Psychology. 125:1991;413-418.
46. Tang T. L. P., Liu H., Vermillion W. H. Effects of self-esteem and task labels (difficult vs. easy) on intrinsic motivation, goal setting, and task performance. Journal of General Psychology. 114:1987;249-262.
47. Tang L. P. T., Reynolds D. B. Effects of self-esteem and perceived goal difficulty on goal setting, certainty, task performance, and attributions. Human Resource Development Quarterly. 4:1993;153-170.
48. Turner J. C. Social comparison and social identity: Some prospects for intergroup behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology. 5:1975;5-34.
49. Turner J. C. Social influence. 1991;Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove.
50. Turner J. C., Hogg M. A., Oakes P. J., Reicher S. D., Wetherell M. S. Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory. 1987;Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
51. Turner J. C., Oakes P. J., Haslam S. A., McGarty C. Self and collective: Cognition and social context. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 20:1994;454-463.
52. Turner M. E., Pratkanis A. R., Probasco P., Leve C. Threat, cohesion, and group effectiveness: Testing a social identity maintenance perspective on groupthink. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 63:1992;781-796.
53. Van Knippenberg A., Ellemers N. Strategies in intergroup relations. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Group motivation: Social psychological perspectives. 1993;17-32 Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead.
54. Weiner B. An attributional theory of achievement motivation and emotion. 1986;Springer-Verlag, New York.
55. Wilder D. A. Predictions of belief homogeneity and similarity following social categorization. British Journal of Social Psychology. 23:1984;323-333.
56. Wilder D. A., Shapiro P. N. Role of outgroup cues in determining social identity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 47:1984;342-348.
57. Williams K. D., Karau S. J. Social loafing and social compensation: The effects of expectations of co-worker performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 61:1991;570-581.
58. Williams K. D., Karau S., Bourgeois M. Working on collective tasks: Social loafing and social compensation. Hogg M. A., Abrams D. Group motivation: Social psychological perspectives. 1993;130-148 Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead.
59. Worchel S., Coutant-Sassic D., Grossman M. A developmental approach to group dynamics: A model and illustrative research. Worchel S., Wood W., Simpson J. A. Group process and productivity. 1992;181-202 Sage, Newbury Park.
60. Zander A., Forward J., Albert R. Adaptation of board members to repeated failure or success by their organization. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. 4:1969;56-76.