People who verify a negative self-view expose themselves to criticism and rejection. Because people with low global self-esteem are hurt more by negative feedback than are people with high global self-esteem, the authors predicted that they would be less apt to verify a negative self-view in a more specific domain. Three investigations found support for this hypothesis. In all 3 investigations,...

Methods 36 Italian and Spanish adolescents with IS (aged 13.1 years; Mean Cobb angle 29°; Risser 0) were visited for the first time in two different centers (Milan and Barcelona). 14 of them were treated by brace and physiotherapy, 22 only by physiotherapy. Patients answered to Rosenberg selfesteem test, SRS-22, and to Body Satisfaction questionnaires, at the beginning and six months later. Eac...

Self-esteem is the "feeling of self-appreciation" and is an indispensable emotion for people to adapt to society and live their lives. For children, in particular, the environment in which they are raised contributes profoundly to the development of their self-esteem, which in turn helps them to adapt better to society. Various psychologists have provided definitions of self-esteem, and examine...

Self-evaluations after interracial and dyadic interactions were examined. African American and White females interacted with either a sameor different-race partner in one of 3 role conditions: the high-status role o f an interviewer. the low-status role of an applicant. or a peer of equal status. Follouing the interaction. responses to the Collective SeltEsteem scale (Luhtanen & Crocker. 1992) ...

Citation: Chen J, Shui Q and Zhong Y (2015) Self-esteem modulates automatic attentional responses to self-relevant stimuli: evidence from event-related brain potentials. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 9:376. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00376 Previous studies have widely shown that self-esteem modulates the attention bias towards social rejection or emotion-related information. However, little is known about...

In this study, effects of self-esteem on self-faces recognition toward four types of faces were evaluated by eye movements tracking within a self-face recognition paradigm. Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was used to assess self-esteem level of participants, high (n = 16) and low (n = 16) self-esteem undergraduates participated in it. Participants completed a self-face recognition task whe...

Two studies examined the effect of self-image threat on the use of social comparisons by those who have high and low trait self-esteem. In the absence of threat, trait high and low self-esteem people engaged in similar social comparison processes. When threatened, however, trait high self-esteem people made more downward social comparisons and trait low self-esteem people made more upward socia...

Implicit and explicit self-esteem are assumed to be important factors in understanding the onset and maintenance of psychological problems. The current study aims to examine the association between implicit and explicit self-esteem and their interaction with depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and loneliness. Specifically, the relationship between the size and the direction of the discrepan...