INTERGROUP EVALUATION AND SELF-ESTEEM MOTIVATIONS - SELF-ENHANCEMENT AND SELF-PROTECTION

According to Crocker et al. (1993) people with high collective self-es teem would be primarily concerned with enhancing the self leading to p ositive ingroup evaluation rather than derogation of outgroups. In con trast, people with low collective self-esteem would be primarily conce rned with protecting the self making outgroup derogation more likely t han positive ingroup evaluation. These predictions were confirmed amon g Dutch youth evaluating ethnic minorities.