Personal Self-esteem Research Articles

Zmienny wzorzec adaptacji a czynniki osobowości HEXACO i samoocena

Cel artykułu. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie powiązania między zmiennym wzorcem adaptacji a emocjonalnością, ugodowością i samoooceną jako czynnikami osobowości. „Zmienny” wzorzec adaptacji jest nabytym sposobem przystosowania, który charakteryzuje się wysoką tożsamościową i emocjonalną zmiennością. Jest podobny do zaburzenia osobowości borderline, ale nie ma klinicznego nasilenia.
 Metody. Badania przeprowadzone zostały metodą kwestionariuszową przy wykorzystaniu Skali Samooceny RSES (M. Rosenberga), Kwestionariusza Osobowości HEXACO-60 (K. Lee i M. Ashtona) oraz Kwestionariusza Jaka/Jaki Jesteś? (Z. Łosia). Zbadanych zostało 191 osób w wieku 32-58 lat.
 Wyniki. Stwierdzono, że zmienny wzorzec adaptacji istotnie statystycznie koreluje z takimi zmiennymi osobowościowymi jak emocjonalność (pozytywnie), oraz ugodowość, uczciwość i samoocena (wszystkie negatywnie). Nie było istotnych związków z ekstrawersją i sumiennością.
 Wnioski. Zmienny wzorzec adaptacji ma zatem układ czynników osobowości sugerujący niezbyt dobre przystosowanie społeczne osób o takiej charakterystyce. Wiedza ta może być użyteczna dla terapeutów i pracowników socjalnych. Ograniczeniem badania jest zakres wieku osób badanych (pominięci byli „wyłaniający się” dorośli).

Self-determination of Personality of Creative Beginning in Choreographic Context

The article analyses the structure of personality self-esteem of representatives of art professions. As an object of the art profession, this research considers the choreographer profession. A feature of the choreographic artist's profession is the directivity on the plastic expression of a given artistic image. This research analyses the process of self-determination of a creative individual in the process of becoming a future professional. The novelty of the research is that choreography is understood not as an innate characteristic of a person, but as an acquired quality. In this research, the researcher shows the methodological techniques, functions and general parameters of the model, which can contribute to the disclosure of creative initiative on the part of the representative of the creative profession. The researchers considered a professional environment that allows the formation of professional qualities in an individual who is in a creative search. A correlation model is presented, which allows speaking about the readiness of an individual for professional self-realisation.

"The longitudinal links of personality traits, values, and well-being and self-esteem: A five-wave study of a nationally representative sample": Correction to Fetvadjiev and He (2018).

Reports an error in "The longitudinal links of personality traits, values, and well-being and self-esteem: A five-wave study of a nationally representative sample" by Velichko H. Fetvadjiev and Jia He (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Advanced Online Publication, Nov 05, 2018, np). In the article, the stability model is referred to incorrectly as trait-state error model in the abstract, twice in the main body of the article, and in the Table 2 Note. Corrected versions of the fourth sentence in the abstract, the first sentence of the Analysis Outline section, and the first sentence of the Table 2 Note are provided in the erratum. The Kenny & Zautra (1995) reference has been deleted from the text and References list, and Steyer & Schmitt (1994) was added to the text and References list. All versions of this article have been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2018-55622-001.) The existence of links between personality traits, values, and well-being and self-esteem is well established, but the nature and direction of these links have been less clearly understood. This study examines longitudinally the stability of traits and values, their mutual effects, and their effects on affective and cognitive well-being and self-esteem. We analyzed data from a nationally representative panel in The Netherlands, spanning 5 time points spread across 8 years (n = 5,159 to 7,021 per time point, total N = 11,890). We estimated latent state-trait models with autoregression and random-intercepts cross-lagged panel models to account for the trait-like, time-invariant stability of the constructs. Traits were more stable than values. The bidirectional effects tended to be significant, but could be distinguished by their relative size. Traits predicted values more strongly than they were predicted by values, and generally predicted well-being and self-esteem more strongly than values did. Traits predicted broad well-being (especially its affective aspects) more strongly than they were predicted by it; values, by contrast, were predicted by well-being (especially its cognitive aspects and self-esteem) more strongly than they predicted it. The findings highlight the central role of traits for personality functioning, while also supporting the mutual constitution of traits and other personality concepts. The results are discussed in the framework of different theoretical approaches to the composition of the broader personality system. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

서번트 리더십과 직무열의 간의 관계에서 개인자존감의 매개효과와 집단자존감의 조절효과 분석

서번트 리더십과 직무열의 간의 관계에서 개인자존감의 매개효과와 집단자존감의 조절효과 분석

A negative halo effect for stuttering? The consequences of stuttering for romantic desirability are mediated by perceptions of personality traits, self-esteem, and intelligence

ABSTRACT Stuttering is a disorder in oral communication that is often accompanied by negative stereotypes and social stigma. The primary goal of the present study was to examine whether opposite-sex perceivers rated the romantic desirability of targets who stuttered differently than targets who did not stutter. We were also interested in examining whether perceptions of the target (i.e., extraversion, emotional stability, self-esteem, and intelligence) would mediate the associations between stuttering and romantic desirability in a zero-acquaintance situation. Results showed that targets who stuttered were perceived to be less romantically desirable than targets who did not stutter. Further, the negative association between stuttering and romantic desirability was mediated by the perceived extraversion, self-esteem, and intelligence of the targets. Discussion will focus on the implications of these results for the understanding of the negative halo effect for stuttering.

Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age

Stress is related to goals being thwarted. Arguably, protecting one’s self, both in terms of personal self-esteem and in terms of social self-esteem, is among the most prominent goals people pursue. Although this line of thought is hardly disputed, it does not play the prominent role in occupational health psychology that we think it deserves. Stress-as-Offense-to-Self theory focuses on threats and boosts to the self as important aspects of stressful, and resourceful, experiences at work. Within this framework we have developed the new concepts of illegitimate tasks and illegitimate stressors; we have investigated appreciation as a construct in its own right, rather than as part of larger constructs such as social support; and we propose that the threshold for noticing implications for the self in one’s surroundings typically is low, implying that even subtle negative cues are likely to be appraised as offending, as exemplified by the concept of subtly offending feedback. Updating the first publication of the SOS concept, the current paper presents its theoretical rationale as well as research conducted so far. Research has covered a variety of phenomena, but the emphasis has been (a) on illegitimate tasks, which now can be considered as an established stressor, and (b) on appreciation, showing its importance in general and as a core element of social support. Furthermore, we discuss implications for further research as well as practical implications of an approach that is organized around threats and boosts to the self, thus complementing approaches that are organized around specific conditions or behaviors.

THE FACTORS OF SOCIAL PEDAGOGUE’S CAREER TRAJECTORIES

Career is one of the most important sources of personality self-awareness, self-esteem, self-expression, social status and life income. Human satisfaction with their career affects all areas of life. The balance of human life depends on career, which consists of the most important areas of human life: love, finances, social activity, leisure, physical environment, personal and spiritual development and health (Clawson, 2010). Career is the attitude and human behaviour related with work experience throughout life. Career trajectory is perceived like professional life and work experience of personality projection in his/her biography. It highlights the human career stages, values and career satisfaction dynamics. Human career trajectory is determined by internal (education, qualification, aims, expectations, personal attitudes and values) and external (social, economic, political) factors. There are still not enough research that are intended to reveal the specific factors of professions and career trajectories. Therefore, what does the career trajectory of social pedagogue look like? What factors determine the particular profession career? These are the research questions of this article.The object of research - social pedagogues’ career trajectory. The aim - to reveal the factors of social pedagogue’s career trajectories. The article consists of three parts. In the first one it is theoretically the factors of social pedagogue career are grounded. In the second the research design is rationalized. The third is dedicated to the factors those influence the career trajectories of social pedagogues. Research methods: the analysis of scientific literature; semi-structured interview; qualitative content analysis. The results of research revealed that the trajectory of social pedagogue is determined by both internal and external factors. Trajectory has a clear layout in time, there are turning points, changes; each career stage is determined by various internal and external factors.

Българска адаптация на въпросника на купърсмит за измерване на самооценката при възрастни (форма с)

Извършена е адаптация за български условия на скалата за изследване на самооценката на Купърсмит за възрастни (форма С). Участниците в изследването са 900, като част от тях са студенти от различни специалности в Университета по библиотекознание и информационни технологии – УниБИТ, а друга част са рекрутирани чрез онлайн форма на въпросника. Айтемите имат добри психометрични характеристики и тестът е с висока надеждност. Проверена е конструкт валидността на скалата чрез корелации с методики, измерващи ценности и удовлетвореност от живота. Извлечени са три съдържателни фактора, заслужаващи интерпретация (Личностна самооценка; Самооценка, произтичаща от другите; Самооценка, произтичаща от родителите). Въпросникът е нормиран за възрастни хора в България.

Criteria of psychological health of adolescents with orthopedic diseases

Introduction. The task of preserving the psychological health of children and adolescents is recognized as most important in the complex conditions of the modern world. Interdisciplinary research addresses the psychological aspects of mental health. For psychological health, understanding the highest level of mental health is an integral characteristic of the well-being of the individual, and the prerequisites for the development of personal maturity. Among the adverse factors in relation to mental and psychological health is what is known as somatic suffering, which occurs in orthopedic diseases. Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to orthopedic disease, eliminating maladaptive manifestations in difficult life situations due to the disease, can be important indicators of psychological health of adolescents.
 Aim. We identify specific indicators of psychological health in adolescents with various orthopedic diseases.
 Materials and methods. The study involved 90 adolescents: 60 aged 1217 years with orthopedic diseases (30 with articular juvenile chronic arthritis and 30 with long-term consequences of mechanical trauma of the upper and lower limbs, resulting from an accident due to negligence) and a control group consisting of healthy adolescents of the same age. The characteristics of the self-esteem personality component (satisfaction with various aspects of their own lives) in adolescents with orthopedic diseases and their healthy peers were considered traditional indicators of psychological health. We used PiersHarris scale modified by V.I. Gordeev Y.S. Aleksandrovich and test of attitude to disease.
 Results. In adolescents with various forms of orthopedic disorders, the formation of stable variants of the attitude to the disease with a violation of adaptation of inter- and intrapsychic types is accompanied by the experience of discomfort, difficulties of self-regulation during treatment, and signs of a negative attitude. Formation of stable variants of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses without expressed disorders of mental and social adaptation is accompanied by a feeling of comfort and self-satisfaction. The prevailing reaction at harmonic, allopathic, and anosognosic types of mogutt act as a sanogenic effect. Emerging resistant variants of the attitude to the disease with a violation of adaptation of inter- and intrapsychic types can represent risk factors for breach of psychological health in adolescents with orthopedic diseases.

Association between perceived HIV stigma, social support, resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) in Nanjing, China

ABSTRACTAmong Chinese HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), high levels of depression are common. The association between HIV and depression is attributed to several factors, particularly HIV-related stigma. However, to date, how HIV-related stigma leads to depression among Chinese HIV-positive MSM is still unclear. As such, this study aims to examine the relationships between perceived HIV stigma, social support, resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms among HIV-positive MSM in China. We conducted a cross-sectional survey study among 347 HIV-positive MSM from July to August 2016 in Nanjing, China. Measurements were sociodemographic and psychological constructs including perceived HIV stigma, social support, resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine the relationships among these constructs. Overall,134 (38.6%) participants had depressive symptoms. Perceived stigma was directly associated with depressive symptoms (β = .196, p < .001). Perceived stigma also indirectly affected depressive symptoms (β = .200, p < .001)through social support and self-esteem. Social support (β = −.124, p = .004) and self-esteem (β = −.536, p = .001), but not resilience, were direct predictors of depressive symptoms. Resilience was directly associated with self-esteem (β = .512, p < .001). Perceived HIV stigma could directly and indirectly impact depressive symptoms in HIV-positive MSM. Improving personal self-esteem, resilience and social support might reduce impact of perceived stigma on depressive symptoms among HIV-positive MSM in China.

ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ СОЦІАЛЬНО- ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОЇ АДАПТАЦІЇ ДІТЕЙ- МІГРАНТІВ ТА МІСЦЕВИХ ДІТЕЙ

The article presents the empirical study comparing socio-psychological adaptation of migrant children and local children at general education school. The performed theoretical analysis has substantiated the existing problem of migrant children adaptation to school. The performed theoretical analysis also has determined that the difficulties in the socio-psychological adaptation of migrant children are often stipulated by their inability to interact with the local population (peers and their parents, teachers), communicative drawbacks, which in turn stimulate anxiety, hostility, distrust at new living conditions and the environment, and so on. The performed empirical study has shown that indicators describing socio-psychological adaptation of migrant children and local children are different. In particular, migrant children have higher aggression and hostility; they have more pronounced forms of aggression such as: physical, verbal and indirect aggression, manifested in the use of physical force, threats, bad language, gossip, rumours, etc. They also show more often negativism, irritation, suspicion, and insults in comparison to local children. The local children have lower personal and reactive anxiety and self-esteem; they have a high social status (stars) in school more often than migrant children and very rarely have low (ignored) status, while almost half of migrant children have ignored or isolated statuses in the group. All children (local and migrants) response mainly impulsively in frustration situations, however, migrant children are still often show an extrapunitive orientation and, they manifests an intropunitive orientation to a lesser extent.

A Discriminant Analysis to Predict the Impact of Personality Traits, Self-esteem, and Time Spent Online on Different Levels of Internet Addiction Risk among University Students

A Discriminant Analysis to Predict the Impact of Personality Traits, Self-esteem, and Time Spent Online on Different Levels of Internet Addiction Risk among University Students

Социально-психологический тренинг как метод формирования ассертивного поведения у подростков

The paper focuses on the use of psychological training as a method of developing assertiveness in adolescents. The theoretical basis for this study was found in the ideas of L. Vygotsky, T. Dragunova and D. Elkonin. The main phenomenon investigated in the empirical part of the research is the influence of socio-psychological training on the practical skills of confident behaviour in teenagers, their ability to openly and directly formulate and discuss their goals and strive towards achieving them while maintaining friendships and partnerships with others, personal health and energy. To test the hypothesis in the course of the study, before and after the sociopsychological training the authors used the following psychodiagnostic methods: “Investigation of the level of personal self-esteem”, “The Dembo-Rubinstein Ladder”, Spielberger’s “Investigation of the level of anxiety”, and Leonhard’s “Investigation of character accentuation”. The study was conducted in 2018 in a secondary school in the town of Gatchina. The outcomes of the study confirmed that socio-psychological training (SPT) can be used as a method of generating sound self-esteem in adolescents. Significant positive differences between the indicators of self-esteem and the emotional sphere in the experimental group before and after the training support the idea that SPT conducted in order to correct adolescent self-esteem was effective. After the training the students perceived themselves as more attractive, sociable, less conflicted, they recognized themselves as good friends; showed less aggression and anxiety, their self-esteem gained adequacy, they became calmer, more balanced, in other words, assertive. Following the training, the vast majority of the subjects showed behaviour within the limits of low situational anxiety. It can be assumed that after the training they were able react fairly calmly to personal problems. The high level of emotional imbalance exhibited by the subjects prior to the training allows the authors to suggest that the teenagers were prone to mood swings and bouts of weak will, sought trills and new sensations and were inclined towards laziness and dalliance. The results of the conversation with the teenagers after the training suggest that the adolescents reached a mature understanding of such concepts as “conflicting”, “balanced”, “quick-tempered”, “sociable”, and “a good friend”. However, the concept of “attractive” was still somewhat misinterpreted by them as merely a description of an individual’s “beauty” meaning their good looks.

Educational “Looking Glass”, or “They” and “We”

One of the most important and, according to psychological and pedagogical literature, the least investigated aspects of the domestic system of higher education is the sphere of personal interrelations at the level “teacher – student”. The formation of this type of social relations is a complicated process equally depending on both interested sides, but it is this process that eventually determines the efficiency of the educational process. At present anonymous questioning of both students and teachers is by far the only method of high quality psychodiagnostics of this sphere of educational space. The received findings not only give a more comprehensive idea of the personal characteristics of modern students and the teaching staff of higher schools but can also provide some essential corrective amendments to the organization of the educational process. Anonymous questioning of 400 students of the medical and pediatric faculties of Kursk State Medical University (KSMU) has revealed a number of both quite predictable and fairly unexpected facts concerning the psychological atmosphere at the level “teacher – student”. The received findings to some extent alter the firmly established idea of an elevated ambitiousness of the modern generation of students. Corroborative to it is the objective fact of a lowered personal self-esteem in 38% questioned students of KSMU. The fact of the negative judgment of professional and personal qualities of some teachers (16% of respondents) is alarming and needing thorough consideration and practical conclusions. The comparatively low demand of the recommended to students main academic teaching manuals of the studied disciplines (56%) and the actually unclaimed lectures delivered to them (8%) can be to a great extent explained by their competitive disability in comparison with the short in form but superficial in the contents various kinds of “homebrew” guidance-manuals permanently ranking first in the teachers’ annual rating reports.

Hope and Satisfaction with Life: Testing the Mediating Roles of Self-Esteem in three Asian Cultures

The relationship between well-being and the personal strength of hope has been elaborated by the identification of internal (self) and external (family, peers, spiritual) locus-of-hope dimensions. Du, Bernardo, and Yeung (2015) showed that self-esteem (personal and relational) mediates the relationship between locus-of-hope and life satisfaction. Locus-of-hope’s goal-related thoughts involve self-evaluation that may either enhance or diminish self-worth, which then influences life satisfaction. We tested the mediated model in three cultural groups: Malaysians, Macau Chinese, and Filipinos. Participants completed scales measuring locus-of-hope, personal and relational self-esteem, and life satisfaction. Path analysis showed significant indirect effects in all cultures: (a) internal locus-of-hope on life satisfaction, mediated by personal self-esteem, and (b) external-family locus-of-hope on life satisfaction, mediated by relational self-esteem. Other significant indirect effects were found in specific cultural groups. Cross-cultural similarities and differences are discussed with reference to how distinct cultures give different meanings to forms of agency associated with the personal strength of hope, creating distinct pathways towards life satisfaction.

Supplemental Material for The Longitudinal Links of Personality Traits, Values, and Well-Being and Self-Esteem: A Five-Wave Study of a Nationally Representative Sample

Supplemental Material for The Longitudinal Links of Personality Traits, Values, and Well-Being and Self-Esteem: A Five-Wave Study of a Nationally Representative Sample

Relationship between 12–16-Year-Old Athletes’ Self-Esteem, Self-Confidence and Bullying

Research background and hypothesis. Previous research has proved that children engaged in sports easier integrate into the society and their psychological well-being is much higher, sports activities can help them resist to the harmful influence of their peers and prevent them from engaging into delinquent behavior. However, there still is a lack of a studies providing evidence about factors that determine the expression of compulsion. Hypothesis: The level of self-esteem and self-confidence of adolescent athletes influences the occurrence of bullying and the initiation of it. Research aim was to disclose the relationship between the level of adolescent athletes’ self-esteem, self-confidence and the occurrence of bullying.Research methods. The study applied I. Shostrom’s modified self-esteem scale questionnaire and the adapted Bullying Scale for Schoolchildren. Research results. Results showed a weak correlation between bullying and self-esteem levels (γ = 0.24; p &gt; 0.05). We found a weak adverse relationship between initiating bullying and self-assessment levels (γ = –0.16; p &gt; 0.05), weak adverse correlation between experienced bullying and self-confidence levels (γ = –0.15; p &gt; 0.05) and a weak linear relationship between initiating bullying and self-confidence (γ = 0.20; p &gt; 0.05).Discussion and conclusions. Contrary to what we expected, we observed that athlete adolescents with the high levels of self-esteem suffered from bullying sometimes and often. Research findings suggest that adolescents who tend to initiate bullying demonstrated moderate and low levels of self-esteem. Most of athlete adolescents admitted that that did not initiate bullying or if they did, that was done only occasionally. It was found that adolescents with high and moderate self-confidence levels experienced bullying occasionally or not at all. Some athletes with low self-confidence levels professed that they suffered from bullying more often, and they also admitted that they often initiated bullying themselves. In our research we were unable failed to provide evidence which would prove that sports activities impacted or influenced adolescents’ bullying initiatives or experiences; therefore further research is needed to determine whether self-esteem and other internal personality qualities could affect the expression of bullying among non-athlete adolescents.Keywords: aggression, adolescents’ self- assessment, self-confidence.

Geronto guidance: Lifelong guidance

We argue that older workers and retirees have a right to be esteemed as members of society. Few guidance activities currently focus on one of the final and important transitions in life, the process of retiring. This process raises challenges to personal identity and self-esteem which could be ameliorated by support in the later years of working life. But most guidance activities are aimed at youth or at people at job and/or education transition points earlier in their lives. With an ageing population, this will have to change. Geronto Guidance is a blind spot in lifelong career guidance.

소비자의 자아존중감에 따른 네일 서비스의 심리적 효과의 차이

Nail-care services are growing rapidly. If causes for the increase in nail-care service consumption is diversion or self-satisfaction, we can speculate that consumers perform self-care through nail-care services. Nail-care-service consumption should be allowed to increase because of the positive psychological effects such as improving mood or alleviating depressed emotions. Moreover, the psychological effects of nail-care services differ according to consumers’ tendencies. Therefore, this study divides the types of consumers, to investigate whether there is a difference in the psychological effects of nail-care services depending on the types. This study used the questionnaire survey method. Results of the study revealed that the sub-factors of self-esteem, extracted as two factors, were “personal self-esteem” and “social self-esteem”. Consumers were classified according to the sub-factors of self-esteem into four groups. There were differences in the psychological effects of nail-care services according to these four groups. It was found that all groups had psychological effects above the average value. This result indicates that only the degrees of psychological effects differ in accordance with the types of self-esteem, and that psychological effects generally play a large role in all types. Since psychological effects were positive for everyone regardless of their self-esteem, utilizing nail-care services considerably reduces the depression and anxiety of modern people. Nail-care services expected to become the basis of the nail therapy field.

THE EFFECTS OF THE NON-DIRECTIVE INTERVENTION (NDI) ON PRESERVICE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS’ SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-EFFICACY AND PERSONAL GROWTH

Non-Directive Intervention (NDI) is an experiential method of group facilitation, founded by Michel Lobrot. According to this method, the group facilitators intervene in a non-directive way. The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of the NDI on the personal growth, general self-efficacy and self-esteem of pre-service preschool teachers. Ninety-three undergraduate students participated in the research. Results of the present research work showed that students’ personal growth, general self-efficacy and self-esteem were enhanced at the end of the sessions. Results are discussed within the NDI experiential learning framework. Article visualizations: