Adolescence marks a critical transitioning period in which individuals undergo through various types of changes such as physical, emotional, and cognitive maturation. Furthermore, many researchers have accounted for spirituality and religiosity as vital assets of development for youth as it provides morals, ideals, and a positive self-image. Spirituality is having an intimate experience of the sacred and divine, while religiosity correlates with organized religion. Religiosity embodies beliefs, practices, and rituals. In general, it is believed that adolescents who are introduced to religion or some type of spirituality tend to have lower levels of anxiety and are less likely to develop maladaptive psychological adjustments.
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I agree because in general, God made women fragile and sentimental. While some women are more emotive than others, most women are actually very self-conscious about their appearance and the way others perceive them. However, I do believe that self-esteem differs on how a woman publicly perceives herself. If a female distinguishes herself with attributed masculine aspects such as self-confidence, outspokenness, and acts like a leader, then they will have a higher self-worth. Furthermore, living in a male-dominated culture and society tends to also, promote low self-esteem (Mason, Mason, & Mathews, 2016, p. 245). I can see why this is correct because social norms tend to have an impact on the way women are treated. For so long women have been attributed and are continuously associated to weakness and inability to lead, yet, we easily forget that we were created in God’s likeness. The truth is, we are all created to be effective …show more content…
For instance, there is a “greater likelihood for men to aspire leadership and for women not to aspire leadership roles” (Mason, Mason, & Matthews, p, 254). Furthermore, self-esteem is also an important factor to consider. For both genders, “self-esteem forms the desire and will to take on leadership roles” (Mason, Mason, & Matthews, 2016, p. 252). In my experience, I believe that both men and women have an equal chance of aspiring leadership roles. Nonetheless, this is my stance because I have a lower level of a patriarchal attitude and a higher self-esteem. As the leader of two ministries, I would advocate that there is no reason for women to be afraid of aspiring leadership roles. Insecurities should not be obstacles that prohibit women from pursuing their calling and their goals. In fact, they should serve as motivation to overcome such a stigma of gender inequality in the
In Sheryl Sandberg’s essay “Lean In: What You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?”, she talks about how women are afraid to strive for leadership that men pursue for. She mentions how women are afraid to be leaders even though they outperform men academically in their degrees. Women are discouraged to enroll in leadership in the workforce because “they are less valued in the workplace” and “overwhelmingly stocked with men”(Sandberg 646). More importantly, Sandberg points out that the reason women don’t seek for high positioned jobs is that they aren’t “ambitious” as much as men. Not being ambitious allows women to not show themselves that they don’t have a strong desire to obtain the highest leadership. Women aren’t as ambitious than men because they
...valuated and affirmed by those around us. For women, however, this process is often interrupted, due to the fact that “when women display leadership behaviors we consider normative in men, we see them as unfeminine, [and] when women act more feminine, we don’t see them as leaders” (Sarah Green, Harvard Business Review). This issue is felt and internalized, rather than seen, and drastically decreases women’s motivation to lead within an organization. In contrast, Morrison notes that women, while kept from the innermost circles of leadership and power, and constantly, and with high intensity, purported to succeed: “the pressure is in being a minority, set apart by gender before anything is said or done, and in being responsible for representing women as a group because there is no one, or few others, to share that responsibility” (Breaking the glass ceiling, pp. 17).
Powell and Graves’s study shows that “the gender gap in leadership is a global phenomenon whereby women are disproportionately concentrated in lower-level and lower-authority leader ship positions compared to men” (as cited in Northouse, 2016, p. 399). I couldn’t have agreed more with the statement; I have come across all of people from different aspects of lives. I have noticed that females’ interactions and how they are perceived and or accepted are quite different from males, whether at the workplace, school, in social gathering like religious services, around families and friends, etc. This includes the communication, uncertainty that arises in a professional environment that must do with our
Meanwhile, men continue to be provided with greater access to leadership roles than women. Given that the majority of the incumbent leaders are men, if the evaluators do not have previous exposure to competent women leaders, they may have a harder time choosing females of equal background and experience over their male counterparts. This perpetuates the cycle of men continuing to dominate the upper management positions, and leadership being equated with stereotypical masculinity. Women have to be more highly qualified than men to obtain the same roles (Eagly, 2007).
Self-Esteem. Self-esteem is the way individual perceives, symbolized and accept ourselves as worth beings in this world (Oregon Resiliency Project, 2003). Everyone must have the self-esteem in order to perform in the daily routine but the differences are the level of self-esteem inside individuals. The level of self-esteem will reflect how individual performs in a daily task and life. Self-esteem is popular among the psychology field of research and still being study by many researchers. Throughout of human life span, highs self-esteem promotes the development of human potential entirely (Habibollah et al., 2009).
Self-esteem is commonly defined as “a confidence in one's own worth or abilities.” It’s typically known as a personality trait, so everyone’s idea of “self-esteem” is completely different. Your self-esteem affects how you talk, act, and even think. Do you feel like you’re successful? Are you happy with your appearance? How do you feel about your social status? These are all questions that can help determine whether you have low self-esteem or high self-esteem.
Nowadays, the students in Hong Kong facing lots of pressure due to academic result, family expectation, low self-confident and so on. Therefore, I would like to analyze the case study 1 to identify the possible problems of main character, Ken who often feels stressed and alone due to different reasons.
The mind of adolescent goes through a psychosocial stage learning a morality and developing ethics (Erikson, 1963, p. 245). Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development emphasizing a child learning to trust or mistrust caregivers on early age (Broderick, 2014) and growth of faith is somewhat sensible in my view. During my middle school and high school, I was living with Hindu and Buddhist friends, only couples of us were Christian among thousands of students. Since I was engaged in such religious exercises during my early growth stages of faith framed a deep-felt and individual spiritual life, and social pattern that I stick to my parents' religions and Christian principle though I was tested so much living among the children who practiced other faith and had much different
In middle childhood, around the age of 7, children start to develop a self – esteem. The development of self -esteem is important because it determines the way a person views ones-self. The Self- esteem formed in middle childhood changes by the time an individual reaches adulthood. There are many longitudinal studies that have been done on the development of self – esteem. One such article is “Cherish Yourself: Longitudinal Patterns and Conditions of Self- Esteem Change in the Transition to Young Adulthood” the researcher wanted to see the change in self –esteem between secondary school and young adulthood, they also wanted to see if gender played a role in the change of self-esteem, this study is explained in the article. In another study, “Self- Esteem Development From Age 14 to 30 Years: A Longitudinal Study,” the researchers studied self –esteem development between the ages of 14 to 30 with a focus on how demographic variable such as gender and ethnicity, the five personality traits; sense of mastery, risk taking, health and income all played a role in self-esteem.
Self-esteem refers to an individual's sense of his or her value or worth, or the extent to which a person values, approves of, appreciates, prizes, or likes him or herself (Blascovich & Tomaka, 1991), generally, a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward the self (Rosenberg, 1965). Self-esteem has emotional, cognitive, cultural, and physical elements (Hicdurmaz, Incci, and Karahan, 2017). Healthy self-esteem is based on our ability to accurately assess ourselves, acknowledging both our strengths and weaknesses and still be accepting of who we are. Proper self-esteem is achieved when one can see the whole of themselves, and still believe that they are valuable, worthy, and deserving. While this is a universal struggle it is also equally a collective goal. Low self-esteem can be a debilitating condition, leading people to feel as though they are unlovable, unworthy, incapable, and incompetent. This low self-worth holds us back from realizing our potential or the fact that we have any at all, rendering us incapable of maximizing, actualizing, and reaching our full potential. High self-esteem enables us to know and feel that we are valuable, positive, appreciated and loved. It is known to boost self-confidence, to allow for interpersonal relationships that are both healthy and satisfying, to
Self-esteem has to do with the value you place on yourself and your abilities regardless of what anyone thinks or says. According to Smith and Mackie in 2007, Self-Esteem was defined as follows: “The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it.”
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each one of us. It is a person’s overall assessment
Self-esteem, a key concept of social psychology, involves self-perception. Effected by a child’s awareness of themselves and their surroundings as well as their expectations of functionality, self-esteem development continues throughout the life span. The development of a healthy sense of self-esteem is not black and white and in early childhood, this burden falls largely on the caregiver. The caregiver is responsible for creating and maintaining an informative environment for the child to successfully grow. Subsequently, the research regarding how to do so is constantly evolving. This literature review will provide information on self-esteem, and its development and longitudinal effects, as well as analyze studies involving the relationship
Interest in the impact of gender on leadership is relatively new. The first studies were conducted in the US in the early 1970s when male managers at nine insurance companies were asked to characterise ‘women in general’, ‘men in general’ and ‘successful managers’. Successful managers were overwhelmingly identified exclusively with male traits. Many similar studies have been carried out since that time and all have demonstrated that the successful managerial stereotype remains male.
When we think about how it used to be 100 years ago, the only people in leadership roles where men, and there was no presence of women. Why is it that we tend to see more men in leadership positions? Usually when we think of what a leader looks like, we tend to describe them as powerful, assertive and confidence. Because of stereotypes our society immediately labels this person as a man, due to the roles that we are expected to follow. Today, there has been a huge shift for women in leadership positions; however, there are many challenges that they still have to overcome. A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2007) defines a leader. Moreover, leaders come in different forms whether in a professional, educational, or group setting. As a male college student and an advocate for equal rights between men and women, my understanding of the struggles that women face has a huge impact on my philosophy of leadership. The three most important concepts in this course that has resonated with me the most are double bind, and think manager-think male and glass ceiling.