Development Of Self Esteem

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2.3 Self-esteem: Rosenberg (1965) describes self-esteem that it is an overall consideration of one’s personal worth, importance, value. Sources of self-esteem comes from comparison of people with his or her own to the other people’s competencies. Main contributions to development of self-esteem is associated with social interactions and related efficient competency skills and anger management (Ausubel, 1950). Self-esteem may be shaped by a lot of events that occur in person’s life. For example, getting divorced, suffering from criminal event or losing job can have impact on loss of self-esteem.(Luciano,2014) The socialization process can influence self-esteem such as stressful life events and therefore personality character in our case self-esteem …show more content…

As another example, in previous researches, in addition to self-efficacy self-esteem can be related to procrastination. (Burka&Yuen, 2008). People showing low-esteem characteristic tend to preserve self-worth by delaying completion of task.) (Judge, Bone, 2001) In contrast high self-esteem individuals will accomplish task to sustain its sense of positive self-worth (Korman, 1970).Shortly, there is a negative relationship between self-esteem and procrastination (Sirois 2004). Conflicts are inevitable in educational environment with students. Secondly, development of anger management and effective communication skills, self-esteem and self-control in addition to empathy can improve ability to resolve problems in an easily way with self-confidence (Cavus, 2013). Cavus (2013) also indicated that conflict resolution and peer mediation training increased self-esteem and there is a positive relationship between self-esteem and integrative conflict …show more content…

Rhoades et al (2001) found that negative affect influence and stimulate competitional behaviour and high concern for her/his self. Individuals with high positive affect are mainly happy, satisfied and pleased with low negative affect (Montes ,Serrano, 2012) and Positive affect increase creative problem solving in negotiations and improves flexible thinking (Isen,2000).Positive affect is related with more cooperative behaviour in negotiation process ((Carnevale and Isen, 1986).Montes and Serrano found that Individuals facing with conflicting issues do not follow rational way of thinking always and affects are influencing decision making. They found that negotiators having high positive affect prefer cooperative conflict resolution styles (integrating and compromising) more than low positive affect negotiators.( Montes, Serrano,

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