People with positive self esteem manage to get through life easier than those with negative self esteem.
Legend: Frn = friend support, fms = family support, fmc = family cohesion, ngt = negative self-esteem, pst = positive self-esteem, rfl = reflection, brd = brooding, dst = distress tolerance, agg = aggression, exp = expressive suppression, GD = general distress.
Thus, improved positive self esteem is the product of a "wider" self-concept, defined by "widening" one's behavioral repertoire.
A higher score indicates a more positive self esteem.
Adolescents' session five covers stress management, and session six focuses on building positive self esteem.
We estimated confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) to compute factor scores for nine of the 10 RFs: High friendship support (i.e. part of social support), high family support, high family cohesion, high distress tolerance, high positive self-esteem, low negative self-esteem, low brooding, low reflective rumination, low aggression, and low expressive suppression.
We used the Rosenberg self-esteem scale53 (10 items) to assess positive self-esteem (5 items; e.g. 'I was satisfied with myself.') and negative self-esteem (5 items; e.g. 'I felt that I was a failure.')53.
We hypothesized and found that participants with higher self-concept clarity (signaling a well-integrated system) had positive self-esteem attractors and weaker self-esteem repellers, whereas those with lower clarity demonstrated less positive self-esteem attractors and stronger self-esteem repellers.
In this study we found that IBS cases had higher levels of negative self-esteem but lower levels of positive self-esteem (Table 3).
Individuals who were pessimistic about the future tended to have higher levels of negative self-esteem but lower levels of positive self-esteem (Table 4).
