SELF ESTEEM

Self Esteem and Adolescence

Abstract

This paper describes the self esteem evaluation with respect to different age stages. Furthermore, this paper discusses the measures by which an individual evaluate himself.Table of Contents

Abstracti

Thesis Statement1

Introduction1

Discussion1

Self Esteem and Self Evaluative Domains2

Domain Specific Self concept3

Early Childhood4

Middle-Later Childhood4

Adolescence5

Global Self-Esteem7

Individual Disparities in Global Self Esteem and Domain Specific Self Concepts7

The Causes of Children's Levels of Self-Esteem8

Conclusion9

Reference11

Self Esteem in Adolescence

Thesis Statement

“Positive self esteem is absolutely a psychological commodity which comes with success in the significant domain”

Introduction

Self esteem is a combination of thoughts o emotions everyone has about himself. These emotions and thoughts develop at a young age, and they have an impact on almost everything in our lives. Self esteem refers to how much an individual adores own self (Weiss, 2011).

Adolescence is a stage at which the self esteem is either increased or decreased. Several people recalls adolescence as a time of progressively more heightened self evaluation and greatly varying self esteem. But still they keep on changing their perception about themselves, as self esteem is a subjective state and thus it is difficult to measure it. There are some behavior that suggest high or low self esteem, for instance an individual with high self esteem is not prone to commit suicide. On the other hand, some people whose success and talents seems to provide them every reason to love themselves will not attempt suicide.

Discussion

Adolescence contains varying extents of self-esteem, which seems to be affected by variables like, gender, social class and ethnicity. It can also differ within a person; an adolescent may have various levels of self esteem in various domains like scholastics, athletics, appearance, social and general conducts and activities (Harter, 2004).

Self Esteem and Self Evaluative Domains

A toddler begins to talk about himself in the second year of life, they master self associated personal pronoun that differentiate him from others. With development, they understand that they have different characteristics, some negative and some positive (Harter, 2004). What matters is that how the nature of such self scrutiny varies with development and changes between person to person throughout two fundamental evaluative categories. The first class is domain specific self concepts, in which an individual judges his attributes in a specific arena, for instance, scholastic, physical competence, social acceptance etc. That person may change his/her feelings across all the domains tremendously by developing an important profile of ratings. A person normally does not feel same in every domain. The other evaluative domain is global self esteem in which an individual values him/her worth on the whole as an individual. The below table shows different self evaluative statement in different domains at different age:

Developmental variations in the Nature of Self-Evaluative Statements Across Different Arena

Domains

Early Childhood Specific Behaviors

Later Childhood Generalizations*

Adolescence Abstractions*

Academic competence

I know my A, B, C

I am bright in school

I am intellectual

Athletic Ability

I am a fast runner

I am a good athlete

I am athletically talented

Social competence

I am a good Friend

I am Social

I am Famous

Behavioral manners

I do not hit my siblings

I am well behaved

I am a moral person

Physical looks

I have long hair

I ...