Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Self-Esteem, Culturally Defined OverviewSelf-esteem (also known as self-regard) is defined as people's evaluations about their own worth, competence, and desirability.Self-esteem is a personality trait that has been widely studied by psychologists and other social scientists.There are different kinds of self-esteem.Explicit measures ask respondents to self-report to what extent they agree that they are a person of worth, that they have good qualities, and that they have positive attitudes toward themselves.Implicit measures of self-esteem assess beliefs about the self that operate below respondents' conscious awareness.Explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem are not correlated with each other.This means that people can believe that they have high self-esteem but have low selfesteem "deep down."Similarly, people might think that they have low self-esteem, but they may secretly love themselves.
Author: Sara Konrath
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2464554050