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Happiness And Self-Esteem

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High level of mental health increased both happiness and life health satisfaction. People with high level of mental health felt happy most of the time because feeling happy in your mind are as important as feeling happy in your body (Abedzadeha & Mahdian, 2014). The simple fact is that people want to feel pleasure and avoid pain. Happiness yields amazing outcomes such as self-esteem, self-regulation and social goals. However, would the ‘self’ be elevated and feel successful if he is in a state of fear? How may fear of happiness relate to one’s sense of ‘self’? This possible influence are the focus of this endeavour as it explores and explains the values between fear of happiness and the effecting self-esteem, self-regulation and social goals. …show more content…

It connotes one’s self-respect (Jan, Khan, Khan, Khan & Saif, 2015) exemplified in having attained something great about oneself or to some extent, the appraisal of an experience or situation. Self-esteem is found to be strongly related to happiness. People with high-self-esteem are more willing to speak up in groups and to collaborate in the group 's endeavour.
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This is also supported by literature that if one sees oneself capable in areas of essentialness, where one tries to exceed expectations, one will have high self-esteem. On the other hand, if one misses the mark regarding one's perfect by being unsuccessful in spaces where one seeks to be able, low self-esteem will come about. (Harter, 1993, p. 88). The life events which causes low self-esteem in oneself are child abuse, bullying, punishment, recurrent failure in academics and professional life, unemployment, financial problems, failure to meet expectations of family, teachers and friends, family disharmony, chronic illness, body image disturbance, low or high body weight, poor body shape, unsuccessful sexual relations. Other reasons of low self-esteem are lack of unconditional positive

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Alfred Adler argues that “the basic law of human life is the urge to self-esteem” and Becker (1971) proposes that humans “switch modes of maintaining self-esteem” (p.66-67). We change from a bodily mode of maintaining self-esteem to a symbolic mode of obtaining self-esteem (Becker, 1971, pp.66-67). This means that symbols like language, grades, money, words affect our self-esteem greatly and “almost all our time is devoted to the protection, maintenance, and aggrandizement of the symbolic edifice of our self-esteem” (Becker, 1971, p.67). This makes our achievement of self-esteem and sense of significance very dependent on the society. “Self-esteem depends on our social roles” and “everyone is always bothering everyone else for a recognition of their basic value” (Becker, 1971, p.70).

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