What is Self esteem? Can you measure it?

 Self-esteem means feeling good about yourself. You believe in yourself and feel proud. you feel competent and worthy     

                
It is a personality trait, which means that it tends to be stable and enduring.

The outcome:

• Good academic achievement
• happiness,
• satisfaction in marriage and relationships.

Good self esteem

Confidence
Ability to say "No"
Positive outlook
Believe in certain values 
Learn from the past.
Enjoy what they do

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Low self esteem

• Negative outlook
• Hypersensitive to criticism; Resents his critics
• Focus on weaknesses
• Exaggerates past mistakes
• Excess desire to please others
• Look for the approval and praise
• Feelings of shame, depression, or anxiety
• Belief that others are better than you

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  • The Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSES), developed by the sociologist Morris    Rosenberg, is widely used in social-science research. It uses a scale of 0–30 where a score less than 15 may indicate a problematic low self esteem.
• Please read each statement and record your score.
• 0 = Strongly disagree
• 1 = Disagree
• 2 = Agree
• 3 = strongly agree
• A score of less than 15 indicates low self esteem

Measure your self esteem:

 I feel I am a person of worth,at least on an equal plane with others

I feel that I have a number of good qualities

All in all I am inclined to feel that I am a failure

I am able to do things as well as most of the people

I feel I do not have much to be proud of

I take a positive attitude towards myself

On the whole i am satisfied with myself

I wish I could have more respect for myself

I certainly feel useless at times

At times I feel I am no good at all

What you should do if you have a low self esteem?     Learn to tolerate criticism:

• Do not resent the person who criticizes you. He may be speaking truth but the way of saying is rude. Ignore the rudeness and introspect.

• Do nor feel insulted (so easily)

This is not that difficult to achieve, if you make conscious efforts.

Please help yourself. Good luck

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