Self Serving Biased Path Analysis

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Self-Serving Bias

Self-esteem may present itself as an issue when you live in a world masked by media, materialism, and a profound necessity to be the best. Although, the common belief that a high self-esteem is hard to obtain isn’t actually factual. The self-serving bias and its factors gives insight to why that is. “The self-serving- bias is the tendency to perceive oneself favorably” (Myers & Twenge, 2015). Self-esteem can derive from different factors in a person’s life. Some of those factors may include intelligence, personal appearance, ethics, health, or professional standings. Although closely relating to bias, the positive and negative events in one’s life may substantially influence the perception of themselves too. A type of self-serving bias known as self-serving attributions is blaming the good events on yourself and the bad events on other factors.
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The goal of this journal was to find a relationship between SSAB, well-being, and coping strategies. Sanjaun found that a connection between SSAB and well-being can exist due to coping mechanisms. Path analysis was used to study 205 individuals and the results showed both a direct and indirect effect on well-being. These results are an implication that maintaining a satisfied well-being can be done by promoting healthy attributional strategies such as problem solving and positive cognitive restructuring coping (Sanjaun, 2014). So regardless of what the positive or negative events that occur in a person’s life are, a satisfied well-being can be achieved depending on how you cope with