The report, titled 'How healthy behaviour supports children's wellbeing', found that: "Higher levels of TV viewing are having a negative effect on children's well-being, including lower self-worth, lower self-esteem and lower levels of self-reported happiness".
"Teaching children that you are a 'geek' if you wear glasses, and are of a lower self-worth than the 'rest of the gang,' although it may only seem like a t-shirt to some people it's things like this that encourage bullying, damage self-image and leave a lasting idea in a young impressionable mind.
Greater childhood trauma exposure, lower self-worth during training, and greater perceived work stress in the first year of police service predicted greater depression symptoms at 12 months.
Greater childhood trauma exposure and lower self-worth during training may be important variables to screen as risk factors for duty-related depression.
It doesn't feel good and leaves you with lower and lower self-worth.
"Researchers found that bullying at any age was associated with worse mental and physical health, increased depressive symptoms and lower self-worth.
A study found that transgender children who have socially transitioned had slightly higher anxiety than other children, but did not have higher rates of depression or lower self-worth.
In a culture where sexual violence is pervasive with six of 10 women being lifetime survivors of domestic violence, this may reflect social constructs of gender that legitimize potential victimization of women leading to feelings of lower self-worth among women and a higher prevalence of depression.
Poignant descriptions of decreased autonomy in decision making coupled with the increased economic pressure of the profession and the role this has on lower self-worth and poor societal perceptions of the profession (ie. inability to get married) have been described recently for truck-drivers [64].
These results are in line with our previous results among young adults with CH, who reported also lower HRQoL and lower self-worth than healthy peers [ 12].
