OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of self-esteem on levels of body dissatisfaction among adolescent females. METHODS A group of 397 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years were enrolled in the study. The Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) was applied to assess body dissatisfaction. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale was used to assess self-esteem. Weight, height, and skinfold thickness were also measured....

This study aimed to examine whether collective and personal self-esteem serve as mediators in the relationship between perceived discrimination and subjective well-being among Chinese rural-to-urban migrant adolescents. Six hundred and ninety-two adolescents completed a perceived discrimination scale, a collective self-esteem scale, a personal self-esteem scale, and a subjective well-being scal...

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...

OBJECTIVE Research suggests that self-esteem can decline in older adulthood. This process could remove a buffer that normally protects individuals against distress-related changes in cortisol secretion. We examined this possibility by testing whether change in self-esteem would predict alterations in cortisol secretion, particularly among older adults who reported high levels of depressive symp...

Sustainability of ecosystems and ecosystem management are increasingly accepted societal goals. However projects of non-governmental conservation organizations (NGOs) and governments also are prone to becoming impractical impositions on local people. Can conservation programs be improved by incorporating local people’s understanding of ecosystems? The Kizilirmak Delta is one of Turkey’s most im...

objective: the present study aimed to review the relationships between procrastination and two self-factors self-efficacy and self-esteem. methods: participants were 140 undergraduates psychology students enrolled in mohagheg ardabili university, ardabil, iran. instruments used for collecting the required data were the student-version of the general procrastination scale (gp-s), general self-ef...

This paper examines the correlation between measures of cognitive saliency of villagers held in memory with measures of centrality of network positions. Using data collected during extensive field work in Tonga, we show that the cognitive saliency of any villager for other villagers is correlated with centrality aspects derived from four villager networks: social support, political influence, d...