Self-esteem: Stability or Mutability?

Molchanova O.N.

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Psychology
2006. Vol. 3, no. 2, 23–51
ISSN: 1813-8918

Self-esteem: Stability or Mutability?

Molchanova O.N.
PhD in Psychology, Assistant professor at the Psychology faculty, the State University "Higher School of Economics", Moscow, Russia
e-mail: olmol@list.ru

The article discusses two aspects of the problem: first, from the point of view of the mechanisms for self-evaluation and protection of a certain level of self-esteem, and second, in the framework of the life span psychology. The author presents results of an original research of the factors influencing specific features of self-esteem: retrospective evaluation of parents' sensitivity, somatic status, age and social context. She analyses the ways the subject maintains his or her self-esteem at an acceptable level, which counteract the negative impact of some conditions (health and age status). She also discusses changes in young adults' self-evaluation for the last twenty years.

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Molchanova O.N. Self-esteem: Stability or Mutability? . Psychology, 2006. Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 23–51. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)