";s:4:"text";s:37040:"When asked to draw a route on a map, people tend to draw routes closer to friends they pass along the way and further away from strangers. Meanwhile, people with low self-esteem were more likely than others to be the victims of bullies. All students in four secondary schools in Ontario, Canada, were included in the study, for a total of a thousand participants. Miller, Christensen, & Olson, 1987). A major shortcoming of most of these studies is that they rely primarily on self-reports. When asked to either indicate the spatial location of a presented word or verify a word’s presence, people respond more quickly when "we" was displayed in a spatially proximate versus spatially distant location and when "others" was displayed in a In view of the heterogeneity of high self-esteem, indiscriminate praise might just as easily promote narcissism, with its less desirable consequences. The lack of independent prediction does not necessarily undermine the value of self-esteem: Self-esteem may have important effects on delinquency that happen to be mediated by other variables (e.g., perhaps low self-esteem people are more likely to engage in delinquency because they are more likely to disengage from school and take risks). Thus, people with low self-esteem were apparently more prone than others to get sick or suffer other physical problems in connection with stressful daily events. These places often include suburbs which are socially close to the core of the city. This study followed students from age 11 (n = 809; 48% female) to age 13 (n = 726; 48% female) and assessed externalizing behavior with three relatively objective measures: teacher report, parent report, and an interview report (at age 13 only) based on the American Psychiatric Association's symptom criteria for Conduct Disorder. In particular, across the entire group, the several years of middle school were marked by declining self-esteem and increased drinking, and these trends were interrelated such that more rapid decreases in self-esteem were accompanied by more severe increases in drinking. However, there does not seem to be any way around this problem, given the lack of objective measures (indeed the ineluctable subjectivity) of happiness. (1989) did find significantly positive, although weak, correlations between self-esteem and self-reported grades, r = .24 in 10th grade and r = .25 in 12th grade. Our mission was to conduct a thorough review of empirical findings—emphasizing the most methodologically rigorous research studies—to ascertain whether high self-esteem is in fact a cause of positive or negative outcomes. Narcissism leads to increased aggression in retaliation for wounded pride. Nathaniel Branden, a leading figure in the self-esteem movement, stated categorically that “self-esteem has profound consequences for every aspect of our existence” (Branden, 1994, p. 5), and, more pointedly, that he “cannot think of a single psychological problem—from anxiety and depression, to fear of intimacy or of success, to spouse battery or child molestation—that is not traceable to the problem of low self-esteem” (Branden, 1984, p. 12). Weight has long been associated with self-esteem, especially in modern Western cultures that glorify slender, young-looking bodies (especially for women). With the exception of the link to happiness, most of the effects are weak to modest. The large study by Glendinning (1998; described earlier, in connection with smoking) found that high self-esteem was associated with more (rather than less) frequent alcohol consumption among young men but not women, and self-reported episodes of drunkenness were unrelated to self-esteem. found a unique association between self-esteem and performance only on the land navigation exercise. The classic study Pygmalion in the Classroom, by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968), showed that teachers' false, unfounded beliefs about their students later became objective, verifiable realities in the performance of those students. (Whether this signifies an absolutely unfavorable or relatively unfavorable evaluation is a problematic distinction, which we discuss later in connection with the distribution of self-esteem scores.) But the material that remained is far more reliable and convincing insofar as the results are based on objective measures. Does self-love lead to love for others? In particular, it was stronger in individualistic countries than in collectivistic ones. Gerrard, Gibbons, Reis-Bergan, and Russell (2000) summarized evidence that young people with high self-esteem may become vulnerable to drug and alcohol abuse, albeit for reasons quite different from those of their peers with low self-esteem. Its relation to bulimia may be especially strong in the presence of other factors, such as body dissatisfaction and perfectionism. A slightly different conclusion was reached by Rosenberg, Schooler, and Schoenbach (1989). For both genders, self-esteem and similar variables were the strongest predictors of eating disorders. Initially, narcissists were rated quite positively as contributing to the group, but by the end of the 7th week, the favorable impression of narcissists had disappeared completely (r = −.01). The skewed distribution of self-esteem scores raises two methodological issues. One approach to studying the heterogeneity of self-esteem is to examine the pattern of scores across multiple measurement instruments. Noting weakness and inconsistency in past findings, they included several measures of smoking, such as frequency of smoking and having given up smoking versus never having smoked. These seemingly contradictory findings may be reconciled by proposing that they simply have more sex in general, a possibility that is supported by other findings (Strouse & Buerkel-Rothfuss, 1987). Low self-esteem is associated with victimization, although whether the low self-esteem is the cause or consequence is not known. In this section, we summarize some of the more important findings. The claim that correlational findings can shed no light on causal processes is overstated. Self-esteem and perceptions of conveyed impressions: Is negative affectivity associated with greater realism? Instead, Whisman and Kwon found the opposite: The self-esteem differences were most pronounced under conditions of low life stress. Over time, however, depressive reactions were found to be a product of a three-way interaction. Members of different groups mix less than members of the same group. Also, the only significant predictor of increase in substance abuse over time was lower levels of perceived control. It is also possible that smoking affects self-esteem rather than the reverse, because the self-esteem of smokers who feel stigmatized may suffer. By examining changes across time, they concluded that there were actually two significant links between self-esteem and delinquency in the data. People with high self-esteem are more willing than others to terminate a relationship, but there is no sign that their relationships actually suffer more or end sooner. One important exception is that high self-esteem reduces the chances of bulimia in females. In a younger sample of nearly 1,500 third-grade and fifth-grade students in central North Carolina, Jackson, Henriksen, Dickinson, and Levine (1997) found that children with lower self-esteem were more likely to admit to having smoked on occasion. Beyond these findings, a smattering of confusing results has emerged from different studies. High self-esteem feels good and fosters initiative. Leadership does not stem directly from self-esteem, but self-esteem may have indirect effects. The real problem we must address—and which the contributors to this volume address—is how we can determine that it is scientifically true. By antisocial behavior, we mean behavior that is socially undesirable but not necessarily violent. Thus, high self-esteem may refer to an accurate, justified, balanced appreciation of one's worth as a person and one's successes and competencies, but it can also refer to an inflated, arrogant, grandiose, unwarranted sense of conceited superiority over others. The impact of narcissism in those studies provided further support for the heterogeneity of high self-esteem, insofar as narcissists may be considered a category of high self-esteem people—people who not only think well of themselves, but also view themselves as being superior to others. Andrew Mecca, for example, is cited as saying that “virtually every social problem can be traced to people's lack of self-love” (Davis, 1988, p. 10). Although the authors clearly favored the self-esteem hypothesis, self-esteem was not a significant predictor for three of the five outcome variables. Because these two lists overlapped substantially, we decided to rely mainly on one of them; we chose the former because it included more entries. Such studies typically measure self-esteem as a preexisting trait and then investigate task performance in the laboratory. Achievement was measured by teachers' ratings, which furnish a good measure although erroneous perceptions by the teacher could affect a student's self-esteem (e.g., if the teacher treats the student as a genius or dullard). In normal populations, scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Emmons, 1984; Raskin & Hall, 1981) correlate substantially with self-esteem (Rhodewalt & Morf, 1995; Sinha & Krueger, 1998). In fact, high global self-esteem in grade 6 predicted lower academic achievement in grade 7. It is a common statistical illusion for extreme scorers to tend to become less extreme over time, and it often does not indicate any genuine difference. Hence, the apparent link between high self-esteem and escalating alcohol abuse might reflect the fact that the students with the highest initial self-esteem and the lowest initial drinking had the largest scope for change. They found that although self-esteem scores were significantly correlated with bulimic symptoms (−.52 and −.36 at the first and second assessments, respectively), self-esteem was not a significant predictor of change in bulimic symptoms in a statistical model that also included the effects of perfectionism and feeling overweight. The self-esteem movement has been especially influential in American schools, and part of the reason for this is the assumption that raising self-esteem will lead to improvements in children's academic performance. The problem this raises for the researcher is twofold. The pattern of ratings for participants with high scores on this pretest measure of self-enhancement was quite similar to the pattern found for narcissists—peers' ratings of their contribution to the group were significantly positive initially, but this positive impression was gone in the final ratings. If anything, people with high self-esteem display fewer inhibitions, more disregard for risks, and greater sexual initiative. For example, they noted that some interventions that did not target self-esteem had produced measurable gains in academic performance. Another study found a weak link between low self-esteem and sexual activity, but this was limited to active Mormons (B.C. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Taken together, these findings uniformly indicate that self-esteem and happiness are strongly interrelated. This work finds that social distance reduces altruistic behavior. In short, self-esteem and happiness are substantially interrelated. Other forms of collective self-esteem yielded weaker results in their analysis. Chemers et al. Bushman and Baumeister (1998) measured both self-esteem and narcissism in laboratory studies of aggression. (, Baumeister, R.F., Heatherton, T.F., Tice, D.M. The studies that have found a relationship have tended to find it only in some analyses, such as only among girls and not boys, or only for some ages, or only for current smokers and not for ex-smokers or experimental smokers. Self-esteem might improve job performance. Those outcomes are conducive to both the happiness of the individual and the betterment of society. Murray, Rose, Bellavia, Holmes, and Kusche (2002) found that people low in self-esteem engage in a variety of potentially destructive behaviors. [6][3][4] Robert Park tasked his student, Emory Bogardus, to create a quantifiable measure of social distance. The broader implication is, however, that the category of people with high self-esteem is a mixed bag that contains individuals whose self-opinions differ in important ways. The possibility remains, however, that self-esteem has indirect effects that are mediated by other factors, such as leadership efficacy. We all know this to be true, and it is really not necessary to create a special California task force on the subject to convince us. (, Metalsky, G.I., Joiner, T.E., Hardin, T.S., Abramson, L.Y. People with high self-esteem tend to have a gap between their perception of discrimination against their group and their perception of discrimination against themselves. This investigation was conducted in connection with a regular course. In short, there is a complex set of relationships through which self-esteem has its effects on vulnerability to eating disorders. The needs of the poor and socially disadvantaged are highlighted. [19] Distance from the mentally ill and the desire to maintain it depends on the diagnosis, and varies across age groups and nationalities. It is important to note that in both this study and Diener and Diener's work, self-esteem and happiness had very different patterns of correlations with other predictor variables, which supports the conclusion that happiness and self-esteem are in fact distinct constructs that can be measured separately despite their relatively high intercorrelation. (We discuss different varieties of high self-esteem in the next section.) A cross-sectional survey of college students by Sharp and Getz (1996) found that those who reported having used alcohol in the past month scored higher on self-esteem than those who reported no alcohol use in the past month. Another reason to surmise that high self-esteem might have benefits for health lies in the vast literature demonstrating the impact of stress (especially chronic stress) on health. Though promising, this research has only recently begun, and it therefore does not play a significant role in this review. People with high self-esteem may set higher aspirations than people with low self-esteem. High self-esteem makes people more willing to speak up in groups and to criticize the group's approach. At age 21, the participants were asked whether they had had sexual intercourse before the age of 15. Locational periphery in contrast is used to describe places physically distant from the heart of the city. Still, no findings show worse outcomes or poorer coping among people with high self-esteem than among those with low self-esteem. As usual, people high in self-esteem rated themselves as significantly better than other people on all interpersonal skills: They claimed to be substantially better at initiating relationships (r = .63), better at disclosing things about themselves (r = .41), better at asserting themselves in connection with objectionable behaviors by others (r = .40), better at providing emotional support to others (r = .30), and significantly better even at managing interpersonal conflicts (r = .20). For example, a high correlation between people's success at doing long division and their self-evaluation for this task may simply result from people's awareness of their ability in this domain. Because high self-esteem people interpret negative events more benignly, perceive that they have greater control, and are generally more optimistic about their coping abilities, it seems reasonable that they would experience less stress and therefore enjoy better levels of physical health than people with low self-esteem. (1988): High self-esteem makes for thinking oneself popular and likable, but in reality people with high and low self-esteem are equally likable. Ratings were also obtained from uninvolved observers. In addition to these peer ratings, self-ratings of likability were obtained. It is possible that occupational, academic, or interpersonal successes cause both happiness and high self-esteem, whereas corresponding failures cause both unhappiness and low self-esteem. That is how they get high scores in self-esteem, but researchers may easily mistake this identical tendency as evidence that self-esteem predicts or even causes a broad range of positive outcomes. They also failed to find that delinquent activity boosted self-esteem, and, if anything, self-reported delinquent activity led to a decrease in self-esteem. Upon reflection, this finding is not surprising, because coming to the aid of a victim requires some degree of confidence. The data came from more than 13,000 college students from 49 different universities, 31 countries, and five continents. In a second correlational study, participants enumerated 10 specific goals at the beginning of an academic year and at the end of the year indicated, for each goal, their perceived progress and behavioral persistence, as well as how much they had ruminated about the goal. Global self-esteem did not differ among the different crowds, although there were some effects for domain-specific self-esteem. [1][2], While French sociologist Jean-Gabriel De Tarde explored some related concepts as early as 1903, the modern construct of social distance are often tracked to work by sociologist Georg Simmel. Meanwhile, the self-esteem of wives was unrelated to their husbands' complaints about them, except that husbands who criticized or insulted their wives' appearance were generally married to wives with low self-esteem, and indeed Shackelford (2001) found that this was the most consistent predictor of low self-esteem among wives. However, Kendall-Tackett, Williams, and Finkelhor (1993) reviewed many empirical studies on sexual abuse of children and did not find evidence that low self-esteem consistently resulted from such abuse (cf. It seems fair to assume that the ultimate answer will be more complex than the original buffer hypothesis. Overall, the benefits of high self-esteem fall into two categories: enhanced initiative and pleasant feelings. Self-esteem is thus not a major predictor or cause of almost anything (again, with the possible exception of happiness). The public interest in self-esteem is motivated in part by the hope that boosting self-esteem will help young people abstain from abusing alcohol and other drugs, smoking cigarettes, succumbing to pathological eating patterns, and engaging in risky sexual practices. A smaller sample of 183 eighth graders was surveyed by Dolcini and Adler (1994). After two easy problems, three unsolvable problems were presented, and the children could claim to have solved them only if they cheated, which thereby allowed the researchers to obtain an objective measure of cheating. Contact. As part of a prospective, longitudinal study of health patterns in a cohort of a thousand young Scots, West and Sweeting (1997) reported on the participants when they were 15. His sample included more than 10,000 young people, aged 14 to 21 at the start of the project and 23 to 30 at the end of it, and he sought to test both the idea that low (or high) self-esteem predisposes individuals toward having children and the converse hypothesis that having children affects self-esteem. Another reason is that it is difficult to detect a correspondence between a global attitude and specific behaviors or outcomes (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). Neither link was significant. It is conceivable that the benefits of high self-esteem, including feeling good, lead directly to better health. Quite possibly, occupational success leads to high self-esteem rather than the reverse. Self-esteem is essentially unrelated to aggression, although this overall pattern may conceal divergent trends for different kinds of high self-esteem. They experiment with sex and perhaps drugs. The most relevant outcome variable, however, was the rating of each individual's contribution to group performance. But aside from differences in levels of specificity of measurement, there is also a difference in affectivity. It is the evaluative component of self-knowledge. Consistent with that view, a meta-analysis (which statistically combines the results of multiple studies) by C.T. They proposed that aggression results from what they called “threatened egotism,” namely, a positive view of self that is questioned or attacked by other people. The task was complicated by four main factors: (a) the many thousands of articles alluding to self-esteem; (b) the tendency of people high in self-esteem to rate themselves as superior on many dimensions (and the floccinaucinihilipilification among people with low self-esteem); (c) the difficulty of establishing the direction of causal relationships; and (d) the heterogeneity of high self-esteem. High self-esteem predicts being a bully and supporting a bully–but a different category of high self-esteem predicts defending victims against bullies. Moreover, the effects of self-esteem become weaker as the criteria for evidence become more objective. However, evidence for the role of self-esteem in delinquency is quite contradictory. Conceivably, however, a new emphasis on cultivating accurate self-understanding would pay off in terms of better choices. Ortiz and Volloff (1987) found significant correlations between self-esteem and tests of IQ and school abilities, using a limited sample of Hispanic students in grades 3 to 6 who had been nominated for testing as candidates for gifted classes. Bulik, Wade, and Kendler (2000) studied the relation between self-esteem and bulimia in monozygotic (“identical”) twins. There may be a small positive association moderated by gender. For example, as we noted earlier, high self-esteem individuals perceive that they have more social support, and perceptions of social support have well-documented relations with numerous health outcomes, including length of life (see Ornish, 1998, for a summary). There appear to be relatively few personal costs to high self-esteem. A recent study of obese women supports this idea. In the ego-threat condition, however, differences did emerge. Some people experiment with drugs recreationally, whereas others become addicted. Bers and Quinlan (1992) showed empirically that this is true, stating, “This disparity between interests and perceived abilities supports the common clinical observation that anorexics generally feel incompetent and unable to perform well, although they pursue many activities and objectively could claim many accomplishments” (p. 428). There are some positive findings to support this view. An impressive study of leadership among military cadets was recently published by Chemers, Watson, and May (2000). The role of self-esteem in romantic relationships has received fairly little attention. Recent work on social categorization suggests a simple process can account for this effect. People with high self-esteem persisted more in the former condition than in the latter, whereas those with low self-esteem were relatively unaffected by the manipulation. community corrections officer perceptions of offender reentry needs. The degree and type of relationship between psychosocial variables and smoking status for students in grade 8: Is there a dose-response relationship? Suppose, for example, that working hard in school leads to good grades, and good grades lead to high self-esteem. That is, people with high self-esteem were happy in good times but unhappy during stressful times, whereas the degree of life stress apparently made less difference to people low in self-esteem. Moreover, low self-esteem seems to poison the good times. People with high self-esteem are gorgeous in their own eyes, but objective observers do not see any difference. In many studies, the stability of self-esteem, either by itself or in combination with level of self-esteem, has been shown to predict behavioral outcomes. In a sample of 406 young people (aged 14–28), Furnham and Cheng (2000) measured a number of potential correlates of happiness, including recalled parental rearing styles, scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and self-esteem. (, Murray, S.L., Rose, P., Bellavia, G., Holmes, J.G., Kusche, A. In contrast, if the correlations mean simply that self-esteem is an outcome of success and good behavior—which is, after all, at least as plausible as the hypothesis that self-esteem is a cause of success—then there is little to be gained by raising self-esteem. 72(1), 2–12. Antisocial behavior is a companion to delinquency. Second, causes generally precede consequences in time, and so correlations across time are often used to make causal inferences. People with high self-esteem are significantly, substantially happier than other people. We summarize them individually rather than meta-analytically. The effect of experimentally induced failure, self-esteem and sex on cognitive differentiation, The effects of attitudes on teenage premarital pregnancy and its resolution, Predictors of alcohol intake and heavy drinking in early adulthood: A 5-year follow-up of 15-19 year old Finnish adolescents, Self-esteem, restraint, and eating behavior. A more complex laboratory investigation of self-esteem and interpersonal liking was recently published by Heatherton and Vohs (2000). Instead, they concluded that shared prior causes, including family background, ability, and early school performance, affect self-esteem and later educational attainment and were responsible for the correlation between the two. 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