the aim of this study was to investigate differences in stress coping styles between athletic and non-athletic students with high and low self-esteem. for this purpose, 465 students (118 females and 347 males, mean age 23.58+3.20 years) were selected by available sampling method. the questionnaire of coping styles (dadsetan et al. 1384) and self-esteem (rosenberg, 1987) were used to evaluate th...

abstract aim and background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a progressive disease and can extremely affect on body esteem at patients and changes obviously emotions and attitudes with body in patients. based on this study was to examine body esteem in patients with ms. methods and materials: this research study was descriptive, 395 patients of the ms society in tehran in 2012 were selected by conve...

There appear to be two forms of high self-esteem: secure high self-esteem (which is often linked with psychological health) and fragile high self-esteem (which is generally associated with poor psychological adjustment and impaired interpersonal relationships). Discrepant high self-esteem is a form of fragile self-esteem characterized by high explicit self-esteem and low implicit self-esteem. T...

Prior literature examines the direct relationship between personality traits and body esteem. This article explores the possibility that self-esteem mediates this relationship. 165 undergraduate women and 133 men (age 18-21; 42.6% Hispanic, 28.9% Asian, 28.5% Caucasian) completed items measuring personality traits (Big Five), self-esteem, and body esteem. Path analyses were used to test for med...

The present study focused on the discrepancy between explicit self-esteem and implicit self-esteem, using the Name Letter Task with 86 graduate students. In line with suggestions from previous research, participants high in explicit self-esteem but low implicit self-esteem (called "defensive high self-esteem") showed higher in-group favoritism than participants who had high explicit and implici...

The current work examined the untested assumption that implicit self-esteem is nonconscious and cannot be assessed consciously. Participants completed measures of implicit and explicit self-esteem. Later, they guessed their level of implicit or unconscious self-esteem. Results indicated that participants were largely unable to assess consciously their implicit self-esteem. Estimations of implic...

the results of studies have shown that many factors are involved in the formation and development of social anxiety. low self-esteem is a risky factor in the development of anxiety disorders, especially social anxiety in adolescents. the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and social anxiety in adolescents. the present study is cross-sectional and correl...

abstract introduction: self-esteem is one of the necessities of human life and most professionals consider it as a major factor in social and emotional adjustment. low self-esteem in students causes academic failure, loneliness, drug abuse, away from reality and self-destructive behaviors. objective: this study aimed to determine the level of self-esteem and its related factors in high school s...

Researchers have reported that parental authority has linked to levels of child’s self-esteem. Most previous research has shown that authoritative parenting is more beneficial to adolescent self-esteem than authoritarian parenting (Furnham & Cheng, 2000). The effects of authoritarian parenting, however, have yielded contradictory results in Asian cultures. Therefore, the current study aimed to ...

A growing body of research supports the vulnerability model of low self-esteem and depression, which states that low self-esteem is a risk factor for depression. The goal of the present research was to refine the vulnerability model, by testing whether the self-esteem effect is truly due to a lack of genuine self-esteem or due to a lack of narcissistic self-enhancement. For the analyses, we use...