TY - JOUR
T1 - Help seeking, self-esteem, and achievement motivation
T2 - An attributional analysis
AU - Tessler, Richard C.
AU - Schwartz, Shalom H.
PY - 1972/3
Y1 - 1972/3
N2 - Examined whether people in need will seek help from an available source based on an attributional analysis of when seeking help is experienced as threatening to self-esteem. 48 female undergraduates, given the Achievement Risk Preference Scale, perceived that they were performing poorly on a social judgment task and that available guidelines could help them. Help was sought significantly more (a) when it was reasonable to attribute responsibility for failure externally rather than to the self; (b) when the attributes linked to help seeking were peripheral rather than central to Ss' self-conception (only among Ss with high self-esteem); (c) by Ss with low rather than high self-esteem (only when help seeking reflected on central attributes); and (d) by Ss with low rather than high achievement motivation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
AB - Examined whether people in need will seek help from an available source based on an attributional analysis of when seeking help is experienced as threatening to self-esteem. 48 female undergraduates, given the Achievement Risk Preference Scale, perceived that they were performing poorly on a social judgment task and that available guidelines could help them. Help was sought significantly more (a) when it was reasonable to attribute responsibility for failure externally rather than to the self; (b) when the attributes linked to help seeking were peripheral rather than central to Ss' self-conception (only among Ss with high self-esteem); (c) by Ss with low rather than high self-esteem (only when help seeking reflected on central attributes); and (d) by Ss with low rather than high achievement motivation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
KW - attribution to self vs. external area of failure &
KW - help seeking, threat to self-esteem &
KW - high vs. low achievement motivation
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U2 - 10.1037/h0032321
DO - 10.1037/h0032321
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C2 - 5060750
AN - SCOPUS:0015303777
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 21
SP - 318
EP - 326
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -