Uloga nekih mehanizama samoevaluacije i samoregulacije u održavanju samopoštovanja
The Role of Some Self-Evaluation and Self-Regulation Mechanisms in Self-Esteem Maintenance

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary research on self there are a lot of phenomena related to maintaining (augmenting or repairing) self-esteem. The aim of our research was to examine the relative impact of self-evaluation (past and future temporal comparisons) and self-regulation (primary, secondary, and tertiary personal control of development) on low and high self-esteem. A short-term longitudinal study was conducted in two phases with a one-year interval between two measurements. In the first phase 299 subjects aged 16-72 participated, while in the second phase 269 subjects remained. The results showed the significant role of personal control of development and outcomes of temporal comparisons in prediction of lower self-esteem in both measurements. No strategy of self-evaluation or personal control of development was a significant predictor of high self-esteem. Results of hierarchical regression analyses in subjects whose self-esteem decreased between two measurements demonstrated that only primary control was a significant predictor of self-esteem after one year. In a group of subjects whose self-esteem increased, next to personal control of development, the predictive value for self-esteem after one year, although less significant, also had outcomes of temporal comparisons. The interpreatation of these results is in concordance with theories of temporal comparisons and personal control of development.

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