Self Handicapping Essay

Introduction I was required to do a research paper based on any topics in social psychology for my assignment. The topic which interests me the most is the self-handicapping strategy. I have chosen this topic because I wanted to know more about self-handicapping and the purpose why many people are using it. In this present time most of us are using self-handicapping in our daily life. We need to know that using self-handicapping too much is not good as it can lead to disadvantages and can affect self-esteem. Another reason this topic interests me is because I want to know whether individuals with low or high self-esteem use self-handicapping more. Self-handicapping is one of the strategy of impression management besides ingratiation. Impression Management defined as an attempt by people to get others see them the way they want to be seen. In other words, people pursuit to control or influence the perceptions of others about a person, event or object. They normally do it in social interaction by controlling or regulating the information. The person who

The first one is the sample collected is very little which is 10.So we cannot assume that all students in Segi University uses self-handicapping therefore a bigger sample was supposed to be used so that the results will be more accurate. Second, the questions which were provided to the students were too many because when I was conducting the survey the students took quite long time to answer these questions.

Recommendation

Based on research and findings I have done, not many researchers have developed ways how to reduce self-handicapping and to increase self-esteem among people. So in future the researchers should establish some ways to avoid or reduce self-handicapping among the people and also ways to enhance one’s self-esteem. Next, experimental studies should be conducted to examine the effects of self-handicapping on self-esteem.