1967 年 38 巻 2 号 p. 63-72
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of self-esteem and self-evaluation of own performance upon the attraction to other person who had evaluated subject's performance.
Regarding to the effect of self-esteem we assume that (1) one projects his selfesteem level when he recognizes other person's appraisal toward him, and that (2) the recognition of how other person estimates determines the attraction to other person.
Regarding to the effect of self-evaluation of own performance, we assume that (3) one recognizes other person's evaluation to minimize the discrepancy between one's and other's evaluation, that (4) the less discrepancy between self and other's evaluation is, the more one is attracted to the other, and that (5) when other's evaluation of one's performance is above the one's self-evaluation, he is attracted to the other.
From the above stated assumptions, experimental hypotheses were derived. And partial correlation coefficients of variables were evaluated to examine hypotheses in the following three experiments:
(1) The experiment to interact directly with a senior stranger.
(2) The experiment to interact indirectly with a senior stranger.
(3) The experiment to interact indirectly with the peer.
Regarding to the effect of self-esteem the assumption (1) was verified, but the assumption (2) was not sufficiently verified.
As for the effects of self-evaluation of own performance, the assumption (3), (4) and (5) were verified in the experiment (1) and (3), but these assumptions were not sufficiently verified in the experiment (2).