...The Importance of Self-Esteem in Child Development Anastasia Jones Bakersfield College The Importance of Self-Esteem in Child Development Self-esteem is a vital part of a child’s development. The development of a positive self-concept or healthy self-esteem is extremely important to the happiness and success of children and teenagers (Child Development Institute, 1999). Self-esteem is how the individual sees themselves; an individual's perception of their own abilities. But it doesn’t stop at one’s self perception, the perception and expectations of important people in their life, e.g., caretakers also shape a child’s self esteem. A child’s self esteem changes at different ages. They will need different types of support in different stages in order for them to have a healthy self-esteem. Babies don’t have a sense of self yet, but you are able to start building it by answering to their cries, smiling and just being loving. This is letting the baby know that they are loved and develops a sense of security. They are secure because they know that there is someone who loves them and that they are apart of something, such as family, a group of friends, or some type of community. Without this a child won’t have a sense of belonging and feel rejected. This is why it’s important for a child to have a family, group, community, something that makes them feel accepted. We want children to feel accepted and have a sense of purpose so that they believe in themselves. When there...
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...OF ADOLESCENT SELF-CONCEPT Factors of Adolescent Self-Concept: Mass Mediated, Peer, and Family Communication David J. Feliciano University of West Florida 1 FACTORS OF ADOLESCENT SELF-CONCEPT 2 Abstract This paper focuses on the main factors that cause an influence to the self-image and self-esteem of an adolescent. Specifically, this paper focuses on what is believed to be the three primary factors of flux to the self-image and self-esteem of an adolescent: mass mediated social influences, peer interactions, and messages received from family members. The review of literature in this paper leads to two research questions: (1) What factor seems to cause the greatest amount of increased self-esteem for an adolescent who does not have siblings? (2) What factor seems to cause the greatest amount of decreased self-esteem for an adolescent who does not have siblings? The methods chosen to answer these research questions would be experimental research and focus groups. FACTORS OF ADOLESCENT SELF-CONCEPT 3 Despite the amount of research that has been conducted with the hopes of better understanding the development of an individual’s self-concept, the vast number of factors affecting a self-concept results in the inability to definitively label the greatest factor among shaping a self-concept. Although scholars agree that communication is a main factor of selfconcept, the debate centers on what medium of communication affects the self-concept to the ...
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...outdoor play allows children to develop rules and try out multiple scenarios, formal, organized sports allows children to learn rules, appreciate their personal skills, and develop their position on a team. Both types of rule-oriented games are important for developing social competencies and enhanced cognitive capabilities. This milestone develops as children begin to develop more improved motor coordination, a better capacity for information processing, and a heightened social maturity (Berk, 2007, p. 294). The physical skills at play in rule-oriented games include flexibility, balance, agility, and force, reflective of increased muscle strength. All four of these are basic motor capacities which become more refined with the gross motor development of middle childhood. Additionally, children’s enhanced capacity for information processing and gains in reaction time and perspective taking—the ability to understand the motivations and roles of others—enable more sophisticated game play. At this critical juncture school age children’s ability to react to relevant information increases tremendously, i.e. their attention becomes more selective (Kail, 2003). However, it is important to note that these...
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...“The Effects of Nature and Nurture in Middle Childhood” Middle Childhood is the name given for the age division from 6 to 11 years of a child’s life. They are also known as the “school years.” During this time a child’s health, education, and emotional well being are all undergoing changes. Though not as drastic as the changes they will soon face in adolescence, they are steady, and the impact that nature and nurture will have on these aspects reach far and wide across the many developments they face in their lives. Heath is of the utmost importance in raising a child, and is the biggest factor of a child’s physical development in middle childhood. When a child is receiving the proper nutrition he or she needs, they grow at the expected, normal rate during middle childhood. In families where the SES is lower, the children are more inclined to be fed snacks with high caloric content, than food with fresh ingredients. These eating habits can lead to obesity. The food they eat isn’t the only way in which a child may become obese. At an age where most normal children love engaging in physical activity, and expending energy in exercise, children who sit in front of the TV, are at greater risk of becoming overweight and obese. This has everything to do with the family’s SES and therefore, has to do with nurture, the environment in which they’re raised. One illness that can be linked to obesity is asthma. It is common amongst children raised in poverty-stricken environments...
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...OF TEAM EFFICACY AND TEAM SELF-ESTEEM Complete Summary The study analyzes the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and team performance through team efficacy and team self-esteem. Team performance is influenced by Economic, Legal, and Ethical Citizenship. The results of this study show the importance and benefits of having a good CSR within organizations to improve the overall well-being of workers and ultimately the company itself. In addition, the results indicates that Economic Citizenship influences performance through both team efficacy and team self-esteem. Nevertheless, Legal Citizenship influences performance only via team efficacy and Ethical Citizenship only via team self-esteem. Effective Economic Citizenship. All organizations have the obligation of taking care of their employees due to their position as major stakeholders. “The necessary and primary social responsibility of any business organization is economic in nature, as an organization is a basic economic unit in our society”. This essential social citizenship can be implemented through different types of benefits such as good working conditions, adequate training, educational programs, and career advancement. “Managers who focus on this social responsibility can win high return of investment from team workers through their enhanced team efficacy, team self-esteem, and consequently, team performance”. The results of the study indicates that self-esteem and efficacy of employees...
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...lifespan, as they make good choices to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. While development is not sequential, it is progressive as the story of life molds and shapes the beliefs and choices of the future. When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced life. It is an indicator that affects almost everyone. It takes skills that mature and develop over time. Are there life experiences that contribute to the positive handling of the stressors of a crisis? Personal experience and pertinent research points to three themes offering positive influence upon crisis adapting skills. First, a religious and spiritual foundation provides the context through which the crisis can be understood, analyzed and managed. Second, a positive, stable family situation allows for the development of the positive self-esteem necessary through which the impact of the crisis upon the individual can be managed. Finally, the satisfaction found in a career or a job can determine perspective and motivation in dealing with problems outside the workplace. Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Lifespan developmental psychology (LP) is involved in the study of the individual’s development from conception or birth into old age. One of the assumptions of LP is that significant life events...
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...ABSTRACT Self-concept is a person’s understanding of who he or she is in terms of personality ,appearance, personal traits e.g. gender and size. Self-esteem refers to person’s evaluation of his or her own worth ,either in specifics such as intelligence ,attractiveness etc. Unrealistic high levels of esteem may decline or lower achievement and at times lead to aggression at various levels of development. At school extracurricular activities has been seen to promote realistic self-esteem while friendship improves self-concept. Self-esteem as a social construction is considered a positive trait in various parts of the world including US while some nations tend to discourage it. Self-concept as a factor of self-esteem changes with time. Many researches have been done trying to identify relationship and effects of self-esteem/self-concept on various components. Some of the researches include; evaluating association between shyness, self-esteem and relationship satisfaction. Effects of self-esteem & self-concept on academic and aggression., influence of esteem on emotional health. The research has also been trying to identify whether gender has significant influence on various components of which the difference appears to be minimal. Darja, K., & Ronalta, G. (2011). Gender difference in self-concept and self-esteem component. New York: ACARDEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE. In the article the author (Darja and Ronalta ) use independent...
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...leader and more confident in my own abilities. The two areas I’m going to talk about are time management and self-esteem. I chose these two areas because I recognize their importance and my deficiency of these skills in my personal leadership arsenal. Time management is the act or process of exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or productivity. Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. This set encompasses a wide scope of activities, and these include planning, allocating, setting goals, delegation, analysis of time spent, monitoring, organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing. Initially, time management referred to just business or work activities, but eventually the term broadened to include personal activities as well. A time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods. Usually time management is a necessity in any project development as it determines the project completion time and scope. Time management strategies are often associated with the recommendation to set personal goals. These goals are recorded and may be broken down into a project, an action plan, or a simple task list. For individual tasks or for goals, an importance rating may be established, deadlines may be set, and priorities assigned. This process results in a plan with...
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...report that a school is a place in where bullying problems happens. B3. Teachers, educational personnel and self esteem The main point is how teachers relate with students’ self-esteem. It could be pointed out that self-esteem of students affects by teachers’ evaluations. Whether they feel acceptance, support and positive feelings on days, their self-esteem rose. Otherwise, their self-esteem falls with negative and rejection behavior by their teachers. Furthermore, success in school daily tasks means that a student is a worth person. Failure means rejection, depression and non-acceptance by their teachers. Generally speaking, teachers should boost children’s self-esteem. How will...
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...Reflection of the Self Charlesa Mickle PSY 400 University of Phoenix The self, attempts to continue or maintain an unchanging relationship with different aspects of the social world by a means of the creation of identities defined and discovered by an association with the social world. A concern of the self is its image and the impressions it makes on other individuals. The interplay occurring among the self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy and environmental influences provoke external images of the self in the social world, which constantly requires acknowledgment, acceptance, adaptation, and accommodation (Orth, Trzesniewski, & Robins, 2010). For an individual to understand his or her “self,” one must understand what the self is and understand the “terms” of self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. A further understanding of the self occurs through social experiences that affect personal development. The concept of self is the most important aspect of an individual and is an individual’s answers to the question of “Who am I” in the social world (Myers, 2010). Self-schemas, possible selves, self-esteem, and self-efficacy are important aspects of the self. Self-schemas are beliefs regarding self, which guide, and organize the processing of information of self-relevance (Myers, 2010). Basically, self-schemas are the elements of one’s self-concept, and specific beliefs by which an individual defines himself or herself. An individual organizes...
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...lifespan, as they make good choices to meet their physical, spiritual and emotional needs. While development is not sequential, it is progressive as the story of life molds and shapes the beliefs and choices of the future. When humans are compared and evaluated, what is it that influences one person to make good choices and another to make bad choices? The ability to adapt and handle times of crisis is a good indicator of a healthy, well-balanced life. It is an indicator that affects almost everyone. It takes skills that mature and develop over time. Are there life experiences that contribute to the positive handling of the stressors of a crisis? Personal experience and pertinent research points to three themes offering positive influence upon crisis adapting skills. First, a religious and spiritual foundation provides the context through which the crisis can be understood, analyzed and managed. Second, a positive, stable family situation allows for the development of the positive self-esteem necessary through which the impact of the crisis upon the individual can be managed. Finally, the satisfaction found in a career or a job can determine perspective and motivation in dealing with problems outside the workplace. Significant Lifespan Factors Impacting Personal Coping Skills Lifespan developmental psychology (LP) is involved in the study of the individual’s development from conception or birth into old age. One of the assumptions of LP is that significant life events...
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...and what their role is in life” This suggest that identity development plays a critical role in the individual’s psychological well-being. Thus the necessity of understanding your sense of identity is self-evident. In summary, in this assignment, I’m going to discuss the importance of identity, and the relation between the identity and role of a person portray and enact. To begin with, identity plays an important role in our daily life, and the Identity I’m talking about here is not just a set of computerised data that distinguish me from you and you from me; Identity is a complex term, which links self attitudes, or identities, to the role relationships and role-related behaviour of individuals. Identity theorists argue that the self consists of a collection of identities, each of which is based on occupying a particular role (Stryker, 1968; Stryker & Burke, 2000). Identities can be defined as one's answers to the question 'Who am I?" (Stryker & Serpe, 1982). Many of the "answers" (e.g., "I am a student") are linked to the roles we occupy, so they are often referred to as "role identities" or simply, "identities." For example, familial identities might include those of married couple or parent and occupational identities might include those of accountant or salesperson. In turn, these role identities are said to influence behavior in that each role has a set of associated meanings and expectations for the self (Burke & Reitzes, 1981). No doubt, identity is fundamental...
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...point of what motivates or drives human behavior. For Freud it was biology or more specifically the biological instincts of life and aggression. For Erikson, who was not trained in biology and/or the medical sciences (unlike Freud and many of his contemporaries), the most important force driving human behavior and the development of personality was social interaction. Erikson left his native Germany in the 1930's and immigrated to America where he studied Native American traditions of human development and continued his work as a psychoanalyst. His developmental theory of the "Eight Stages of Man" was unique in that it covered the entire lifespan rather than childhood and adolescent development. Erikson's view is that the social environment combined with biological maturation provides each individual with a set of "crises" that must be resolved. The individual is provided with a "sensitive period" in which to successfully resolve each crisis before a new crisis is presented. The results of the resolution, whether successful or not, are carried forward to the next crisis and provide the foundation for its resolution. |Erikson's Theory of Socioemotional Development | |Stage |Age |Expected Resolution | |Trust |Infancy |Child develops a belief that the environment can be| |vs. ...
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...described as the feeling of fulfilment, satisfaction and desire for self-development of an individual (Rosenfeld & Wilson, 1999), it is undeniably an important issue to any manager or team leader. This essay will try to find the similarities and the differences between two of the main content motivation theories, namely Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Alderfer’s ERG theory, and the extent to which they can be applied in organizations. It will also suggest ways in which leaders can apply them. One of the most influencing content theories of motivation is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Fincham and Rhodes, 2005). He believed that human needs can be organized in the so called ‘hierarchy of relative prepotency’ (Maslow, 1970, p. 17). He outlined five levels of human satisfaction – physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs. Each of those needs is consequently arising once the previous is sufficiently gratified. Hence if one is insecure and endangered, their only motivator will be the need of safety and higher-level needs like need for belongingness and love won’t appear. This would mean that until a certain need is satisfied, the individual can be completely identified with that need. On the other hand Maslow argued that if one level of satisfaction is obtained, it no longer represents a motivator to the individual and probably this is the reason why the notion of self-actualization occupied the biggest part of his interest in the motivation...
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...to desired thinness. The study found that these three processes lead to three main consequences in adolescents. The three main consequences are, 1) an individual’s increasing dissatisfaction with their body; 2) weight concerns; and 3) behaviors relating to eating disorders. The study also proves that the increase of these three consequences leads back to an individual increasing their media consumption. Often times, people who acquire the behaviors related to these three consequences look to the media for guidance. One can see how this could lead to a very vicious and detrimental cycle. The media creates these consequences and instills them in our youth, which leads our youth to turn to the media for support and advice. This shows the importance of providing positive support systems for adolescents so they do not feel the need to turn to the...
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