To investigate the relationship between ways of coping, self-esteem, individual factors and mental health among Chinese nursing students.
To protect their self-esteem, individuals tend to attribute failure externally rather than internally.
In order to preserve their self-esteem, individuals tend to attribute their failure to external factors more than to internal factors.
If their performance feedback or test results are positive, to strengthen one's self-esteem, individuals are likely to take credit for the success.
If the performance feedback or test results are negative, to protect one's self-esteem, individuals may tend to attribute failure to external factors.
This is consistent with the literature in that when faced with a threat to self-esteem, individuals can often make downward self-enhancing comparisons that increase subjective well-being by comparing themselves with less fortunate others [ 22].
Libby, Valenti, Pfent, and Eibach (2011) have shown that imagining failure from an observer rather than field perspective is associated with increased feelings of shame and negativity of accessible knowledge amongst low self-esteem individuals.
Third, it is a plausible hypothesis that vulnerability for mania is characterized by a propensity towards exaggerated abstract level of goal/action identification of positive outcomes, leading to elevated positive mood and grandiosity (i.e., more extreme version of high self-esteem individuals seen in Marigold et al., 2007).
(p<0/05).Discussion to summarize, this study showed that negative body image and low self esteem among individuals with sexual dissatisfaction affect sexual function.
In summary, rejection to unfair offers on the UG is related to increased positive and decreased negative trait affect, supporting a new self esteem account of individual differences in microeconomic behaviour.
The aim of this study was to compare body image and self esteem among married individuals with sexual dissatisfaction and normal married individuals.Method The design of this study was causal-comparative.
