This article advances the debate about costs and benefits of self-enhancement (the
tendency to maintain unrealistically positive self-views) with a comprehensive meta-analytic …

Self‐esteem is a pervasive individual characteristic with major consequences for people's
lives. Recent research demonstrated normative change and substantial individual …

A growing body of research supports the vulnerability model of low self-esteem and
depression, which states that low self-esteem is a risk factor for depression. The goal of the …

The present meta-analysis tests the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem, by
synthesizing the available longitudinal evidence on prospective effects between global and …

Although numerous studies have emphasized the role evaluations by others play for
people's self-esteem, the perspective of others and the social diversity of real-life contexts …

This meta-analysis investigated the normative development of domain-specific self-
evaluations (also referred to as self-concept or domain-specific self-esteem) by synthesizing …

Transitions in and out of work are common experiences with major repercussions for
people's lives. The complex link between work transitions and psychological adjustment is …

Girls have much lower mathematics self-efficacy than boys, a likely contributor to the
underrepresentation of women in STEM. To help explain this gender confidence gap, we …

This meta-analysis examined the rank-order stability of domain-specific self-esteem by
comprehensively synthesizing the available evidence in eight domains of self-esteem (ie …

Empirical research on the (mal-) adaptiveness of favorable self-perceptions, self-
enhancement, and self-knowledge has typically applied a classical null-hypothesis testing …