Gender Differences In Social Comparison Condition:The Effect Of Upward Social Comparison,Downward Social Comparison In Romantic Relationships

Romantic relationship is the relationships between lovers(Liu,Mao,2011). Implicit self-esteem is a primitive, unconscious, automatic, they formed in the early individuals for their own self-evaluation of the whole(Bosson, Swann, & Pennebaker, 2000; Koole, Dijksterhuis, &van,2001). Social comparison refers to the lack of objective evaluation criteria when the surrounding is, by comparing an individual to obtain a social phenomenon of self-evaluation information(Festinger,1954) with others. Daily life of social comparison is often the spontaneous formation of the uplink comparative information typically reduces the level of individual self-evaluation, and comparative information will enhance the downlink self-evaluation of the level of the individual(Heike,2010). This paper summarizes previous studies, and explore the impact of upstream and downstream compare comparison between lovers spontaneous individual self-assessment on this basis, whether the task dependencies which will play a role in the impact, as well as between lovers spontaneous social comparison with explicit social comparison effects of individual self-evaluation of whether there are differences.In this study, the state of love in college students as research subjects, three-part experimental research. Research will explore a spontaneous social comparison on self-evaluation,and the impact if there are gender differences between lovers. 3 study(social comparison:upward social comparison / downward social comparison / control group) × 2(Gender: male /female) between the two groups experimental design. In the upstream comparative context,subjects recall and write on something lovers success stories. On the contrary, in the context of the downlink comparison, writing on something lovers experience of failure. After the comparative situation of social control, within the implicit self as an individual self-evaluation indicators of changes in measurements. The results showed that, compared with the same lover downlink compared to the uplink more likely to hurt the male ego, but does not affect women’s self-esteem; the negative effects of upward comparison to male self-esteem is much larger than the downlink bring positive impact brought by comparison. On the basis of a study on the added task-related research two variables, explore their lovers spontaneous social comparison affect the existence of the individual in the role of self-evaluation. Using 2(social comparison: upward social comparison / downward social comparison) × 2(task dependencies: a high correlation /low correlation) × 2(Gender: male / female) between the experimental design group. II study results again support the hypothesis of a study, and further draw task dependencies will not affect the comparison between lovers community self-evaluation role. Of Three further explored between lovers spontaneous social comparison with explicit social comparison on the Effect of individual self-evaluation of whether there are differences. Study 2(comparative feedback: No contrast / contrasting) × 2(social comparison: upward social comparison / downward social comparison) × 2(Gender: male / female) between the two groups experimental design. The results show that spontaneous social comparison between lovers with explicit social comparison Effects of individual self-evaluation of the same, male subjects spontaneously social comparison with lovers. The study concluded that:(1) Compared with lovers downlink compared to the uplink compare hurt male implicit self-esteem, implicit self-esteem of women there is no impact;(2) to compare the uplink with lovers male self-esteem the negative impact is much larger than the downlink positive impact brought by comparison;(3) spontaneous social comparison between lovers is not relevant to the task of the individual on effects within implicit self-esteem generated; Room(4) lovers spontaneous social comparison comparison with a clear social impact of individual self-evaluation of the effect is the same;(5) with male lovers are spontaneous social comparison.