OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to identify retrospectively the alienating behaviors and the parental bonding that occurred in an Italian sample of adults whose had parents separated or divorced and their associations with self-esteem and psychological distress. METHODS Four hundred seventy adults in Chieti, Italy, completed an anonymous and confidential survey regarding their ch...

The aim of this study was to estimate prevalence rate of alexithymia and eating disorder (ED) as well as to explore the relationships between alexithymia and eating behavior, self esteem, and body esteem in non-clinical college women. A total of 313 Japanese college women were asked to make entries of age, height, and body weight, and to answer the full items in the Japanese version of the Toro...

BACKGROUND Surgical correction of breast asymmetry involves not only an acceptable aesthetic result but also physical, social, and psychological consequences on the patient's quality of life. OBJECTIVE The authors evaluated the impact of breast asymmetry surgical treatment on self-esteem and health-related quality of life in a group of 35 patients. METHODS Patients completed the Medical Out...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed the role of self-reported facial scar severity as a possible influencing factor on self-esteem and depressive symptoms in patients with facial burns. METHOD A prospective multicentre cohort study with a 6 months follow-up was conducted including 132 patients with facial burns. Patients completed the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale, the Rosenberg Self-e...

BACKGROUND Cancer is a multifactorial disease and skin carcinomas are the most common type of cancer. Assessing quality of life and self-esteem outcomes in skin cancer patients is important because these are indicators of the results of the treatment, translating how patients face their lives and their personal relationships. OBJECTIVE To assess the late impact of the surgical treatment of he...

BACKGROUND The students' vulnerability to different problems can have an impact on their mental health. Regarding the lack of evidence on the effectiveness of interventional programs based on health education planning models in this area in developing countries, an educational-participatory program based on the PRECEDE model was used, to promote the medical science students' self-esteem and men...

0191-8869/$ see front matter Crown Copyright 2 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.04.017 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Laboratoire de Re Social, Département de Psychologie, Université du Q Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada. E-mail address: [email protected] The Dualistic Model of Passion (Vallerand, 2010) regards passion as a strong inclination toward a self-defining act...

Self-esteem (SE) is one of the most widely studied constructs within social sciences. While a variety instruments and methods have been developed to assess SE, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) remains extensively used scale worldwide evaluate SE. Although RSES has validated utilized in numerous settings around world, despite its brevity general ease administration, it only remarkably few Afri...

Self-esteem has been associated with neural responses to self-reflection and attitude toward social feedback but in different brain regions. The distinct associations might arise from different tasks or task-related attitudes in the previous studies. The current study aimed to clarify these by investigating the association between self-esteem and neural responses to evaluation of one's own pers...

OBJECTIVE This work aims to study self-esteem in adolescents with diabetes, asthma and epilepsy; compare the results with those of the representative sample of healthy adolescents; and evaluate the predictive value of certain demographic, family-related, and disease-related factors on self-esteem. METHODS A total of 148 chronically ill adolescents and 301 matched healthy counterparts complete...