Self-esteem

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A Venn diagram showing the relationship between self-concept, self-efficacy, and self-esteem.

Self-esteem is a psychological term describing the state of having in oneself:

  • a positive attitude
  • Self-worth (As far as self-worth, Christians and Jews believe that mankind was made in image of God (Genesis 1:27) and they believe in the fall of man).[1] Furthermore, Christians also believe that once one becomes a Christian, they are a new creation in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).[2][3]
  • belief in one's own competence.[5]

Liberal educators often disconnect self-esteem from achievement (See also: Achievement orientation) and humility, focusing more on developing self-esteem than on actually ensuring their students actually learn anything. The problem with self-esteem is that it teaches people to be proud of yourself for nothing. [6] This results in the pursuit of mediocrity. Liberal educators commonly adopt politically correct policies in their classrooms in order to protect the self-esteem of women, minorities,[7] and other groups. However, a study conducted by the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem found that higher self-esteem doesn't correspond with higher intellectual performance. Also, having higher self-esteem doesn't produce correct moral outcomes such as lowered teen pregnancy or reduced delinquency.[8]

Psychologist Martin Seligman and Coach Rick Patino on self-esteem

Educators in California believed that programs designed to increase young students' self-esteem would lead to increases in academic achievement. However, they did not bother to check this assumption. Martin Seligman criticized them for this:

  • Seligman says self-esteem is a byproduct of competence, and that attempts to increase competence by buoying self-esteem are not just ineffective but even counterproductive. Seligman further stated: “Well-being cannot exist in our own head. It is a combination of actually having meaning, good relationships, and accomplishment.”[9] (Others have noted that juvenile delinquents and dropouts have higher-that-average self-esteem.)

The American basketball coach Rick Patino in his book Success is a Choice wrote:

“ Self-esteem comes with a catch, though.

We must deserve it.

Only when you have your plan of attack, you become organized, have discipline in your life, your prepared to win - that's when you should give yourself some credit.

Only when you proven that you deserve victory.

It's counterproductive to boost someone's self-esteem when that person doesn't deserve it.[10]

”

Self-esteem and self-worth

See also: Self-worth

Self-worth is the internal sense of being good enough and worthy of love and belonging from others. Self-worth is often confused with self-esteem, which relies on external factors such as successes and achievements to define worth and can often be inconsistent leading to someone struggling with feeling worthy."[11]

The abstract for the 2001 journal article Contingencies of self-worth published in Psychological Review states:

“ Research on self-esteem has focused almost exclusively on level of trait self-esteem to the neglect of other potentially more important aspects such as the contingencies on which self-esteem is based. Over a century ago, W. James (1890) argued that self-esteem rises and falls around its typical level in response to successes and failures in domains on which one has staked self-worth. We present a model of global self-esteem that builds on James' insights and emphasizes contingencies of self-worth. This model can help to (a) point the way to understanding how self-esteem is implicated in affect, cognition, and self-regulation of behavior; (b) suggest how and when self-esteem is implicated in social problems; (c) resolve debates about the nature and functioning of self-esteem; (d) resolve paradoxes in related literatures, such as why people who are stigmatized do not necessarily have low self-esteem and why self-esteem does not decline with age; and (e) suggest how self-esteem is causally related to depression. In addition, this perspective raises questions about how contingencies of self-worth are acquired and how they change, whether they are primarily a resource or a vulnerability, and whether some people have noncontingent self-esteem.[12] ”

Core self-evaluations and self-esteem

See also: Core self-evaluations

Core self-evaluations (CSE) is a psychological "theory that includes four personality dimensions: self-esteem, self-efficacy, locus of control" and neuroticism.[13][14][15] "Core self-evaluations are instinctive judgments that we all make about ourselves and our lives."[16]

See also

Other related concepts:

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References

  1. ↑ Man as the Image of God
  2. ↑ 7 Benefits of Being a New Creation in Christ
  3. ↑ New Creation in Christ
  4. ↑ Traditional social-psychiatric theory argues that productive people will enjoy life, feel good about themselves, earn the respect of friends and co-workers, and feel connected with their families and society. Paul Cameron, Ph. D.
  5. ↑ "Self-esteem" Mental/Emotional Health at BBC Health; accessed 24 December 2007
  6. ↑ https://www.prageru.com/video/why-self-esteem-is-self-defeating/
  7. ↑ http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-asks-public-schools-to-ingore-bad-behavoir-by-black-students "Barack Obama's "African American Education Initiative" creates a new Federal bureaucracy. One of its goals will be to stop disciplinary action against black public school students who misbehave."
  8. ↑ Education's self-esteem hoax (Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2002)
  9. ↑ [https://www.ipc-mn.com/the-power-of-self-confidence/ The Power of Self-confidence}
  10. ↑ Success is a Choice by Rick Pitino, Chapter 2, page 29. Broadway Books. 1997
  11. ↑ Self-worth, University of North Carolina
  12. ↑ Contingencies of self-worth. Psychological Review. 2001 Jul;108(3):593-623. doi: 10.1037/0033-295x.108.3.593.
  13. ↑ Personality traits of core self-evaluation as predictors on clinical decision-making in nursing profession, PLoS One. 2020; 15(5): e0233435. Published online 2020 May 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233435
  14. ↑ Core self-evaluations
  15. ↑ Validity and Reliability of Core Self-Evaluations Scale in Iranian Employees, Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 1561–1565
  16. ↑ Core self-evaluations
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