PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Polskie Radio Program I, Albert Bandura, Emotional Reasoning

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3BA3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Positive psychology lecture positive traits, values, and attitudes b. Females" self-esteem is more reliant on what others think (social acceptance or rejection) than males" is. They experience a significant drop in self-esteem in adolescence for females, especially in the physical appearance category. For males, self-esteem is more related to successes and failures (competency), personal uninvolvement, lack of emotion, and independence. There is a less dramatic drop, if any, during adolescence. Lack of emotion, lack of involvement, lack of company. There are different values of self-esteem depending on socioeconomic status. Low socioeconomic status: manual labour, strength, specific job skills. High socioeconomic status: education, understanding, intellectual prowess. Parental values (e. g. if your dad hates music and you want to be a drummer) Worthiness and competence can be arranged in a graph to label people as: Classic low self-esteem: low competence, low worthiness.