What Are The Factors Affect Self Esteem

Factors Affect Self-Esteem

Doaa Alsenani

ELI 072

Factors Affect Self-Esteem

Nowadays, people believe that they should have strong personality to manage their life. Therefore, it is necessary to have high self-esteem in order to help people getting better lives. Dr. Phillips stated that the definition of self-esteem in psychology is how people assess another person through looking to the values (n.d.). In fact, people may not notice that. Building high self- confidence can consider as the first step towards happiness and better life. There are two factors that affect the self-esteem of young adulthood and older adults in different ways, such as healthy life, and work life, while on the other hand, there is one similar factor, which is family life.

The first different factor between young adulthood and older adults is healthy life .In young adulthood, people want to have a good health life because in this stage of age most people care in their bodies. They try hard to protect their bodies from diseases, like obesity. Thus, they go to the gym and follow diet because they want a beautiful

Moreover, the rate of self-confidence in young adult decreases and reaches to the lowest point in older adults, but in adulthood the rate of self-esteem raises. Also, researchers did a lot of surveyed that asked people about self-esteem. The result showed that self- confidence varies from white and black people, such as black people change during childhood to adulthood. Therefore, self-esteem in all age is depend on the people’s life status, which their lives happy or sad, and it becomes high in middle age and decline after retirement The author also stated that there are other factors impact on self-confidence such as education and employment status.