Low Self-Esteem

Org, “Human beings need face-to-face contact to be mentally healthy.” Social Media is lowering people’s self esteem because they can only see a certain side of these people’s lives. According to Dr. Gordon Flett, Canada Research Chair in Personality and Health, states “Social media is the bane of people’s happiness, We also have a tendency to believe how others describe themselves, which leads to false assessment — and sets us up for greater unhappiness.” They only show the good times, or the good pictures. Everything positive they show, so it makes you feel like the odd one out and less of a person then they are.

This is where the question of “Do I like who I am?” comes into play. Self-esteem, more so than the other major components of self, weighs heavily on how one interacts with others. For instance, if an individual is insecure about their uneven teeth because they are viewed as an imperfection, one may be less likely to willingly interact with others in fear of judgment. This lessens the amount of friendships made and overall lessens one’s confidence. On the other hand, if one is secure of who they are, it is evident in the way one communicates and their good feelings associated with life in

In a world where we cannot not live without food, it has proven that food is the necessity for a healthy living. In as much as food is good for the body, excess eating of food has been a major problem around the globe and hence affecting the living welfare of people. Obesity is at high risk and a lot of us don’t consider that as a problem but gaining weight. For one to be effective, it requires good eating health habits and not excess eating that result in obesity.

In modern city, we can see many treatment center promote they can keep “fit”, but “thin” actually. Many women put much effort on improving their body shape so that they look more self-efficacy. However, it is not healthy and happy when they try to change their actual body. Women liked to compare with others, so they really concern about the comment of other people (J.A. McMullin, J. Cairney, 2004). Women self-efficacy is related to the others feelings.

(2003) defined self-esteem as how much value people place on themselves and it is the evaluative component of self-knowledge. There are two levels of self-esteem which were high self-esteem and low self-esteem. To be exact, high self-esteem was referred to an accurate, justified, balanced appreciation of one’s worth as a person and one’s successes and competencies. Meanwhile, low self-esteem can be either an accurate, well-founded understanding of one’s shortcomings as a person or a distorted, even pathological sense of insecurity and inferiority (Baumeister et. al, 2003).

Pressure to be Perfect     There are around an astounding number of 24 million people of all ages and genders who suffer from different eating disorders in the United States alone (NEDA). There are constantly advertisements, television shows, and social media posts that promote a flawless body that makes people loathe their figure rather than embrace their appearance. Eating disorders may be caused by other things such as genetics, being female, sports, family history, and many other reasons (Mayo Clinic). Although there may be many downsides to society’s look on appearance, it may benefit people as well. There are places on the internet and social media that provide body positivity, which can help men and women who are suffering from an eating

There was a study performed on children in elementary school, the children were asked to fill out a questionnaire. According to statistical analysis, there is a substantial inverse relationship between self-reported discomfort during self-esteem measurement and self-esteem scores. As a result, kids with lower self-esteem expressed more “discomfort” while having their self-esteem measured. The outcome implies that kids with low self-esteem might not enjoy the self-esteem testing process. Hence, at least in educational settings, it is preferable to stay away from self-esteem measurements with a lot of negative descriptions (Tsurumaki).

On the contrary having a high self esteem always does not lead to any change and leads to overconfidence. Being overconfident gives you a false perception of you and the world around you. You have to beat the perception given by others in order for you to be happy. There is a big difference from being happy on the surface and actually being happy. Being happy on the Surface could lead to a low Self-Esteem and on the other hand being happy on the inside leads to a high

People with high self-esteem are satisfied with the type of person they are; they acknowledge their strong points, and weaknesses (often hoping to overcome them), and generally feel quite positive about the characteristics and competencies thy display. People with low self-esteem view the self in a less-favourable light, often choosing to dwell on perceived inadequacies rather than on and strengths they may happen to display. Contemporary belief is that self-esteem is routed in early childhood with a foundation of

THE SELF ESTEEM; CONCEQUENCES Introduction, In psychology the term self esteem is used to describe a person’s overall sense of self worth or person value. Self esteem often seen a personally treat which means that to it tends to be stable. Self esteem can involves a variety of beliefs about the self, such as the appraised of one’s own appearance, emotions and behavior. Self esteem is way where people think about themselves and how worth line the think.

These self-feelings make self-esteem important both experientially and motivationally. Self-esteem can change over time, but individuals tend to maintain a consistent view of their self-worth due to the need for psychological consistency and the need to resolve cognitive dissonance. The motivation to maintain and enhance a positive conception of one-self is a major dynamic of many contemporary self-theories (Gecas 1991). There are several processes that can be used to develop self-esteem: reflected appraisal, social comparisons, and self-attributions. Reflected appraisal is the most important process because of its emphasis within symbolic interaction theory.

2. I define self-esteem as how I feel about myself. Self esteem can affect a person 's life. Someone with a low self-esteem tends to be more bitter about their life, while someone with a higher self-esteem tend to have a brighter, more positive view on life in general. People with low self-esteem are usually more depressed and tend to only focus on the negative.

Our society has helped create a definition of dieting that is not only harmful to the body but also does not work. The proper definition of a diet would be the food and drink a person consumes daily and the mental and physical circumstances connected to eating. The public’s definition of a diet is to restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight. Those who engage in this sort of dieting begin with the wrong mentality. They believe by undertaking a diet they will lose weight and keep it off, when in reality most people fail with diets.

Other notable theories have increasingly become self theories because of the perceived importance of the self-esteem motive in cognitive

Accordingly, the previous related literature and studies suggest that there has been a vast array of researches conducted in the context of social influence. Over the years, social influence has become a prominent subject of research studies. Furthermore, self-esteem has also been previously studied and it’s association to social influence yet it also ensures that the current research is not a replication study owing to the fact that gaps of the foregoing research has been outlined. While the above studies provide valuable information regarding the relationship of receptiveness to social influence and self-esteem, however, the relationship of receptiveness to the distinguished three forms of social influence utilized in the study has not yet been measured. There is also a limitation of the existing studies due to an insufficient or imprecise information of the relationship between social influence and self-esteem and the inconsistency of the results of the studies conducted.