The role of self-esteem and social assurance in adolescent conformity to judgement of perceptual illusions
Date of Publication
1998
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology
Subject Categories
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Psychology
Abstract/Summary
This study seeks to examine the roles of self-esteem and social assurance of adolescents, within the age range of sixteen to twenty years old, in conformity to judgement of perceptual illusions. The study utilized an experimental design. Participants in the experiment were the forty highest and the forty lowest scoring participants (n = 80) from a larger sample (n = 154) that took the Texas Social Behavior Inventory, a measure of self-esteem. The eighty participants were divided into four groups resulting from the treatment combinations of social assurance and self-esteem, namely, (a) high self-esteem participants receiving social assurance (b) low self-esteem participants receiving social assurance (c) high levels of self-esteem participants not receiving any social assurance (d) low levels of self-esteem participants not receiving any social assurance. In all four groups, participants were asked to state their judgments on perceptual illusions after all confederates have expressed uniform judgments. Results indicate that (a) participants with low self-esteem conformed more frequently than participants with high self-esteem (b) participants conformed just as frequently without social assurance as when there was social assurance (c) participants with low self-esteem conformed more frequently than participants with high self-esteem regardless of the presence or absence of social assurance.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU08597
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
60 leaves ; Computer print-out.
Keywords
Self-esteem; Adolescent psychology; Conformity; Certainty; Adolescence; Perception; Judgment; Hallucinations and illusions; Security (Psychology)
Recommended Citation
Bacani, R. R., Chua, L. Y., & Dy Hernandez, W. T. (1998). The role of self-esteem and social assurance in adolescent conformity to judgement of perceptual illusions. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8778
