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...

Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality construct that has been linked with various forms of maladjustment. In this article, we discuss the role of perfectionism as a maladaptive factor in sports and exercise, and we describe a phenomenon we identify as the perfectionism paradox. We note that even though certain sports require athletes to achieve perfect performance outcomes, the tenden...

abstract life skill training is one of the most important factors in increasing self-esteem of students with vision problems. this study was performed with aim of determine and effect of life skills training to increasing of self-esteems of students with vision problems at sabzevar city. the participants of the present study were selected through the available sampling procedure include male an...

Pride is an emotion that may influence a competitive athlete’s sports performance and mastery. The purpose of this study was to develop scale measure the pride traits in (Trait Scale for Athletes: TPSA) examine characteristics. University student-athletes (N = 463) completed TPSA, focusing on subjective emotional episodes other scales important personality constructs including self-esteem, resi...

background and purpose: regarding the role of body image and self-esteem in mental health in women, research examined the mediating role of self-esteem and body image in relation to the self-compassion and mental health in female students research method: the population is composed of girl students of payam noor of delfan city. for this purpose, 280 students were selected by random cluster samp...

conclusions lack of difference in self-esteem of disabled people in different degrees of disability and in both men and women suggests that disabled people should not be presumed to have low self-esteem, and their different aspects of life should be attended to, just like others. furthermore, studies should be designed and implemented based on psychological, social and environmental factors tha...