Ausube puts forward his special point about it and he thinks achievement motivation consists on cognitive drive, ego-enhancement need and affiliative drive.

The previous research revealed that the motivation of self-enhancement played a crucial role on social comparison and temporal comparison.

when we select other people s evaluations to us,we are affected by two self motives: self-verification and self-enhancement,which are mediated by culture.

According to self-enhancement theory when we select other people s evaluations to us, the more positive evaluations is the better, but according to self-verification if the other people s evaluations is more consistent with our own self-concept, it is the better.

Contemporary characteristics and pass to self-improvement of college teacher s quality;

There are several ways to measure self-enhancement: consistency comparison, operational mechanism assessment, implicit self-enhancement measure, and narcissism and socially desirable responding.