Examination of the strength between the stimuli of “self-positive” and psychological health in Implicit self-esteem: Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure

Abstract

One of the methods to measure the Implicit self-esteem (ISE) is the method that measures by degree the strength of the between stimuli of “self-positive,” “self-negative,” “other-positive” and “other-negative”. The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) is a measure that can extract the strength the between stimuli of each combination. A previous study measuring ISE with IRAP showed that the “self-positive” of the between stimuli was strongly indicated, and that it was associated with psychological health. The current study measured the ISE of Japanese university students using the IRAP, and verified the accumulation of knowledge of “self-positive” at two points. As a result, Japanese university students showed the same tendency as the previous research, the score of “self-positive” was highest among the combinations, and it showed the correlation the between“self-positive” and optimistic thinking. The findings demonstrate the advantages of IRAP, which was able to verify the each combination of ISE.