The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the social support and self-esteem of coronary disease patients hospitalized for the clinical treatment of this disease. The sample consisted of 80 patients, 49 men, 52 married, and with an average age of 52 years. Interviews took place from August 2005 to July 2006. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, and the measur...

To esteem something means to have a high opinion of it. To have high self-esteem means holding a high opinion of oneself. This high opinion is usually based on a high overall rating of oneself as a person, and this high rating is in turn based on evaluating one’s actual performance. There are two popular views of self-esteem. One is the theory that it’s good for people to feel good about themse...

Areas of convergence and divergence between the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Terry, 1988) and the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI; Pincus et al., 2009) were evaluated in a sample of 586 college students. Summary scores for the NPI and PNI were not strongly correlated (r = .22) but correlations between certain subscales of these two inventories were larger (e.g., r = ...

Low self-esteem is usually linked to negative outcomes such as poor mental health, but is this always the case? Based on a contextual behavioural model, we reasoned that self-compassion would weaken the link between low self-esteem and low mental health. Self-compassion involves accepting self-doubt, negative self-evaluations and adversity as part of the human condition. In a longitudinal study...

Youth mentoring programs are an increasingly popular intervention, and although successful mentoring relationships can promote a range of positive developmental outcomes, relationships that fail can lead to decrements in a youth’s functioning and selfesteem. The present research develops and validates a youth mentoring relationship quality inventory, based on data from a national evaluation of ...

Maladaptive styles of coping are believed to be a barrier to recovery from schizophrenia. In this study we obtained measures of coping for 133 persons with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. A cluster analysis was then performed based on those scores and produced five distinctive coping profiles. These five groups were then compared on concurrent assessments of hope, self-esteem, sympto...

Characteristics of the Culture that Promote Narcissism Some social analysts believe that today’s culture is characterized by youth who are obsessed with seeking self-fulfillment and are motivated by an exaggerated sense of selfimportance. Overall, our culture values individuality as its highest priority, with individual freedom, personal choice, and individual rights at the core of what the nat...

In Western cultures, girls’ self-esteem declines substantially during middle adolescence, with changes in body image proposed as a possible explanation. Body image develops in the context of sociocultural factors, such as unrealistic media images of female beauty. In a study of 136 U.K. girls aged 11–16, experimental exposure to either ultra-thin or average-size magazine models lowered body sat...

Objective: People with obesity have concerns related to their disturbed sleep and poor self-esteem which decreases health-related quality of life. The study aims see the effect yoga on quality, self-esteem, life among overweight obese people. Method: A total 46 subjects were recruited randomly divided into Integrated Yoga (n=23) or Walking groups. For group, weekly 5 days one hour was taught wa...

Objectives: The four-wave longitudinal study explored developmental trajectories of self-esteem elementary school children and examined the predictive factors such as mother’s parenting behavior, children’s happiness adjustment associated with these trajectories.Methods: Trajectories from grades 1 to 4 were modeled using 1,659 drawn Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC) 2015~2018. Growth Mixtur...