The Study On The Effects Of High School Students Self-esteem On Self-handicapping And Intervention For Self-esteem

As an important personality trait, self-esteem is always the focus subject forpsychologist,and it plays an important role in mental health life on high school students.Self-handicapping is a kind of strategy for protecting or promoting self-esteem when theself-esteem of the individual is under threat. But generally speaking, this strategy is not apositive coping style. Self-handicapping and self-esteem have inseparable relationships.More and more evaluation would be appeared for the senior high school students, so in thisstudy,our subjects are high school students. In this paper, there are two studies. In the first study,the influence of the self-esteem level of senior high school students on the two kinds ofself-handicapping including self-reported handicapping and behavioral self-handicapping wasinvestigated by creating various evaluation situations. The evaluation situations consist of socialevaluation situation, neutral evaluation situation and self evaluation situation. The second study,the group psychological training scheme for increasing self-esteem would be proposed based onthe first study. In order to find the effective method to apply the scheme for reducingself-handicapping, the effect of self-esteem group psychological training on theself-handicapping for lower self-esteem was subsequently studied. Ten students with lowerself-esteem were examined. The following conclusions can be drawn:(1) The main effect of the self-esteem level is significant, that is to say, the self-esteemlevel has a significant effect on behavioral self-handicapping; The main effect of evaluativesituations is significant, that is to say, evaluative situations has a significant effect on behavioralself-handicapping; The interaction of self-esteem and evaluative situations in behavioralself-handicapping is significant. But, there are no significant difference between self-esteemlevels and evaluative situations on self-reported handicapping.(2) After improving the self-esteem level of the high school students by self-esteem grouppsychological training, self-handicapping has dropped significantly.