Between Scylla and Charybdis of High and Low Self-Esteem

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Abstract

The article presents some controversial provisions related to the problem of level sensitive characteristics of self-esteem and their consequences. The focus is on two issues: what is self-esteem and self-evaluation process and what are personal and behavioral consequences of different levels of self-esteem. The results of empirical research that contradict the widely held view of definite positiveness of the high self-esteem are analyzed. The features of the relationship between various parameters of self-esteem and behavior are discussed; the genuine and defensive self-esteem are differentiated, the features of optimal self-esteem are discussed. The complexity and ambiguity of explanatory models of optimal self-esteem are demonstrated.

General Information

Keywords: selfesteem, low and high self-esteem, stability / instability of self-esteem, explicit and implicit self-esteem, adequacy of self-esteem, genuine and defensive self-esteem, optimal self-esteem

Journal rubric: Developmental Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Molchanova O.N. Between Scylla and Charybdis of High and Low Self-Esteem. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2010. Vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 67–77. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Olga N. Molchanova, PhD in Psychology, Assistant professor at the Psychology faculty, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-218X, e-mail: olmol@list.ru

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