• People's desired self-esteem (SE) often differs from their actual SE. • When actual SE and desired SE are incongruent, self-clarity is reduced. • High SE is often desired, so low SE is associated with larger discrepancies. • Discrepancies help explain relationship between SE and clarity. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o In this research, we examined a novel predictor of clarity in one's ...

PROBLEM If and how family support and self-esteem might interact to protect against adolescent suicide risk is not well understood. METHODS Hierarchical multiple regression was used to examine the moderating effect of family support on the relationship between self-esteem and suicide risk behaviors among potential high school dropouts (N = 849), using questionnaires and in-depth assessment in...

This study investigated the association between interpersonal conflicts and the trajectory of self-esteem from adolescence to mid-adulthood. The directionality of effects between self-esteem and interpersonal conflicts was also studied. Participants of a Finnish cohort study in 1983 at age 16 (N = 2194) were followed up at ages 22 (N = 1656), 32 (N = 1471) and 42 (N = 1334) using postal questio...

We performed a survey in a rural village, in Nam Som District, Udon Thani Province, northeastern Thailand, focusing on intestinal parasitic infections and possible related personal factors. From a survey of the 178 villagers, we found the intestinal parasitic infection rate equal to 26.4% (47 cases). Further factor analysis was performed to find whether factors were related to the intestinal pa...

Loneliness is a hurtful feeling that has been attributed to a discrepancy between desired and achieved levels of social contact, self esteem has to do with an individual’s overall evaluation of his or her sense of worth, whereas depression was associated with isolated lives, the absence of pleasure as well as social and vocational impairment. The UCLA loneliness scale (version 3), the Rosenberg...

BACKGROUND The spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus among poultry and humans has raised global concerns and has motivated government and public health organizations to initiate interventions to prevent the transmission of HPAI. In Bangladesh, H5N1 became endemic in poultry and seven human H5N1 cases have been reported since 2007, including one fatality. This study p...

This paper examines the contribution of family and peer interaction in explaining the self-esteem of adolescents from three different cultural environments. For this purpose, we conducted a survey on a sample of 1,033 adolescents from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia using the following scales: the Family Satisfaction Scale, the Scale of Loneliness in the Family, the Friendship Qua...