All Articles Tagged As: self-esteem

Parents' expectations, styles can harm college students' self-esteem (8/18/2008)

Student anxieties often based on exaggerated perceptions of what parents expect ...> Full Article

Verbal aggression may affect children's behavior (8/10/2008)

The methods mothers use to control their children during playtime and other daily activities could have a negative impact on their child's self-esteem and behavior ...> Full Article

Admiring Celebrities Can Help Improve Self-Esteem (6/9/2008)

Admiring Celebrities Can Help Improve Self-Esteem ...> Full Article

Study Highlights Cultural Similarities and Differences about Whether People can Change (3/7/2008)

Is it likely that a 10-year-old bully will change into a kindly pacifist, or that a struggling fifth-grade student will become the next Einstein? ...> Full Article

Do Today's Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary? (1/18/2008)

When asked about the state of today's youth, former president Jimmy Carter recently mused "I've been a professor at Emory University for the past twenty years and I interrelate with a wide range of students...I don't detect that this generation is any more committed to personal gain to the exclusion of benevolent causes than others have been in the past." ...> Full Article

Rejection sets off alarms for folks with low self-esteem (10/12/2007)

Few can tolerate such romantic or professional rebuffs as "It's not you, it's me" and "we regret to inform you that your application was not successful." But while a healthy dose of self-esteem can absorb the shock of rejection, poor self-esteem can trigger the primal fight-or-flight response. ...> Full Article