Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (1): 61-65.

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The Risk Aversion in Gamblers with Different Self-Esteem

YANG Juan1,2, ZHANG Qing-lin1,2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715;
    2. Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2009-01-15 Published:2009-01-15

Abstract: In order to explore the risk aversion in gamblers with different self-esteem,263 college students finished the Rosenberg self-esteem scale,the implicit association test and played blackjack 140 times.The results were as follows: (1)In the blackjack game,all the participants were inclined to avert the high risk.(2)Among the high explicit self-esteem participants,people with lower implicit self-esteem were more likely to avert the risk.Among the low implicit self-esteem participants,people with higher explicit self-esteem were more likely to avert the risk.Risk aversion reflected people's ego-defense mechanism,therefore,these results displayed that people with higher explicit and lower implicit had ego-defense strategies.

Key words: heterogeneity of high self-esteem, defensive, risk aversion

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  • B844.2
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