The effect of self-esteem on episodic memory (recall and recognition) and metamemory (FOK judgments) in students

Experimental articles
By Florent Pinard, Sandrine Vanneste, Laurence Taconnat
English

In order to examine the relationships between self-esteem and memory, a group of students completed Rosenberg’s self-esteem questionnaire and performed an episodic memory task (cued recall and recognition) including metamemory judgments (feeling-of-knowing: judgments of future recognition, and judgment accuracy). The results showed that the lower the self-esteem of the participants, the less they recall words and the lower the accuracy of their feeling-of-knowing judgments. In particular, low self-esteem is associated with underestimation of recognition performance. The results are discussed in light of the Self-Memory-System model (SMS, Conway 2005), suggesting that certain aspects of metamemory could be associated with the executive self, a component of the SMS that ensures consistency between the objectives of the self and performance in the current task.

  • Self-Esteem
  • Episodic memory
  • metamemory
  • feeling-of-knowing
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