this longitudinal study aims to examine the relationships between the perception of parental style, hope, self-esteem and eysenck's psychoticism dimension throughout the span of four years.the sample was composed of 884 students from the wollongong youth study, which commenced when students entered high school. during the course of the 4 years of the study, each participant completed the test b...

There appear to be two forms of high self-esteem: secure high self-esteem (which is often linked with psychological health) and fragile high self-esteem (which is generally associated with poor psychological adjustment and impaired interpersonal relationships). Discrepant high self-esteem is a form of fragile self-esteem characterized by high explicit self-esteem and low implicit self-esteem. T...

abstract introduction: low self–esteem has a continuous relation with chronic psychiatric disorder. occupational therapy increases self- esteem by performing purposive activities and profoundly believes in the relation of occupation and health .this research, examines the effect of day center of occupation therapy services on patients´ self–esteem and the length of duration of hospitalization i...

BACKGROUND The first objective of this study was to compare the changes in physical self-concept, global self-esteem, depression and anxiety after participation in one of two 16-week psychomotor therapy programs for nonpsychotic psychiatric inpatients. The second objective was to study the relationship between changes in these variables. METHODS One hundred and ninety-nine inpatients were ran...

An experimental study investigated selfand other-esteem responses to either fully supportive or less supportive interpersonal feedback in college students with avoidant and borderline personality disorder features (APD and BPD, respectively). Disturbances in self-esteem and in evaluations of others are central to definitions of both APD and BPD, but the extent to which such interpersonal apprai...

OBJECTIVE To assess self-esteem and affecting factors in a middle-aged Ecuadorian female population using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). STUDY DESIGN This was a cross-sectional study in which 149 women (40-59 years) were requested to fill out the RSES and a general socio-demographic form containing personal and partner data. RESULTS Mean age of sample was 47.6+/-5.5 years, a 67.8% ...

Here we examine the effects of both self-reported and independent observer-reported environmental risk indices, the serotonin transporter gene promoter (5HTTLPR) polymorphism, and their interaction on self-esteem. This trait was assessed during early and mid adolescence (mean age=14 and 16.5, respectively) and young adulthood (mean age=21.8) in a prospective cohort of 1214 unrelated participant...

background self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. there is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. objectives this is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative self-esteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 ye...

Recent work has identified the transition from adolescence to young adulthood as a period with distinct characteristics that is important for understanding of human development. Self-esteem plays a critical role in this developmental process. We use self-esteem data measured at mean ages 13, 16 and 22, and anxiety disorder diagnosis at mean age of 33 to examine the impact of development of self...