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REFLECTED APPRAISAL [1 record]

Record 1 1995-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

Refers to the way individuals gain information about their competencies and acceptability by their perceptions of the way that others react to them. The individual sees him/herself in the "mirror" provided by the reactions of others.

OBS

Related terms: self-evaluation (=self-assessment), social perception, social interaction, peer relation, self-perception.

CONT

The symbolic interactionist model of self-concept, also known as the reflected appraisal process, was adopted as the theoretical framework to investigate the effects of social interaction processes on the self-appraisals of adult participants in a small group ... Actual appraisals had moderate effects on reflected appraisals, and had no effects on self-appraisals when reflected appraisals were controlled ... General self-esteem of adolescents from ethnic minorities in the Netherlands and the reflected appraisal process ... Reflected appraisal and the development of self ... Self- and reflected appraisal among football players: a test of the Meadian Hypothesis ... [Source: PASCAL database].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

L'idée que chaque individu a de soi-même est fonction de la façon dont il perçoit les réactions des autres à son égard. Des écoliers évaluent en fonction des réactions de leurs pairs, leur propre potentiel d'attirance physique [Source : base de données PASCAL].

OBS

Termes connexes : autoperception, relation interpair, interaction sociale, conception, estime de soi, image de soi.

Key term(s)
  • image de soi par les yeux des autres
  • estime de soi par les yeux des autres

Spanish

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