PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Terror Management Theory, Roy Baumeister, Sheldon Solomon
23 Dec 2020
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Self esteem: an affective component of the self, consisting of a person"s positive and negative self-evaluations. Some individuals have higher self-esteem than others do an attribute that can have a profound impact on the way they think and feel about themselves. It"s important to keep in mind, however, that although some of us have higher self-esteem than others, a feeling of self-worth is not a single trait etched permanently in stone. Rather, it is a state of mind that varies in response to success, failure, changes in fortune, social interactions, and other life experiences. Also, because the self-concept is made up of many self- schemas, individuals typically view parts of the self differently: some parts they judge more favourably, or see more clearly or as more important, than other parts. Indeed, just as individuals differ according to how high or low their self-esteem is, they also differ in the extent to which their self-esteem is stable or unstable.
