PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Playtime, Intrinsic Activity, Motivation
20 Apr 2016
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The extent to which you like yourself (or various self-concepts) an attitude. Domain-specific self-esteem this means that self-esteem changes based on the self that you are thinking about. For example, my self-esteem changes when i think about the student me vs. the employee me. Global self-esteem this is the overall view of yourself as a whole. Self-esteem can be both a good and a bad things. On a positive note, people with high self-esteem; have great persistence after failure, cope better with stress, are happier, have better self-image, report better relationships and have better academic performance. On a negative note, self-esteem can sometimes be hollow; is can lead to narcissism and can be correlated with social desirability. There are different ways to measure self-esteem by looking at implicit and explicit self-esteem! Implicit self-esteem: this is the self as an organizing structure in memory. There are things about ourselves that are remembered better than things not connected to ourselves.
