Negative Effects Of Self Esteem

Positive and Negative Outcomes of Self-Esteem According to Parrot (2000) self-esteem is important to developmental growth. It is especially important for adolescents because they are in the middle of transition from childhood to adulthood. Although adolescence is a very stressful period for many adolescents and parents, it is also an appropriate time for them to develop self-esteem because adolescents are able to become more self-conscious and introspective with a new capacity for self-reflection. Moreover, multiple studies regarding self-understanding and low self-esteem have been conducted in the past years. Self-esteem is a part of self-understanding of adolescents and is possible to vary and dynamic construct, inclined to the internal

The researcher divided self-esteem in three types, personal self-esteem, relational self-esteem and collective self-esteem. According to Tajfel and Turner (1979) as cited by Du et al., (2017), self-esteem can be derived from both the personal and the social self, the personal self refers to self-concept that derived from unique traits that differentiate one person from another, under the social self they differentiate between the relational and the collective self. The relational self pertains to aspects of self-concept that are rooted in interpersonal attachments and define one’s role in the relationship while the collective self was derived from membership from social groups. They examined whether personal self-esteem, relational self-esteem and collective self-esteem would have positive effects on subjective well-being. The findings indicated that personal self-esteem is significantly associated with more life satisfaction and meaning in life, but it is not significantly associated with positive affect. Relational self-esteem significantly predicted life satisfaction; it suggests that relational self-esteem can contribute to satisfaction with one’s own life more than personal self-esteem. Relational self-esteem was also a significant predictor of positive affect and meaning in life; it also suggests that people with high relational self-esteem experienced more positive affect and

The study aimed the effectiveness of group therapy on increasing self-esteem of male prisoners in Isfahan. Research shows that people who have low self-esteem, they are likely to commit crimes and immoral acts, and low self-esteem is more a factor in fraud, drug abuse and more crime types, if someone has high self-esteem, they are more likely to commit an act of resistance. The researchers concluded that the prisoners who received integrated monotheistic therapy leads to increased