Self Esteem

موضوع: Self Esteem الخميس يونيو 30, 2011 6:58 am

What is Self Esteem?

Self esteem is defined by psychologists mostly in terms of stable sense of personal worth or worthiness. Social learning theorists, mainly Morris Rosenberg and a few others came up with this concept. In 1969, a definition by Nathaniel Braden was accepted. It was ."The experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness". Self worth and our own evaluation of ourselves is what primarily constitutes self esteem.

High self esteem, is a type of self esteem which psychologists have found and studied in people. People either have low self esteem or high self esteem. Lets take a look at what is high self esteem.

High Self Esteem Characteristics:

Well, to begin with, there is no concrete high self esteem definition. High self esteem is observed and identified through certain behavioral patterns and personality traits. There are various things which can portray that the person has high self esteem. These are -
The most basic thing is that they feel worthy of love and approval. They do not need to know what they are worth from others.
Total self acceptance and understanding their inner self.
Confidence in themselves and their abilities.
Respecting and realizing individual differences among people.
Listening to others point of view is another of the high self esteem traits.
Taking responsibility for your own actions and their consequences.
Ability to take positive risks and effort to improve one self.
People with high self esteem have good communication skills.
They never undermine the abilities of others and never demean them. [list

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