Debates about the benefits of self-esteem have persisted for decades, both in the scientific
literature and in the popular press. Although many researchers and lay people have argued …

In this article, we review new insights gained from recent longitudinal studies examining the
development of self-esteem and its influence on important life outcomes. The evidence …

Self-esteem is clearly one of the most popular topics in modern psychology, with more than
35,000 publications on the subject of this construct. This exceptionally wide and diverse …

Self-esteem has become a household word. Teachers, parents, therapists, and others have
focused efforts on boosting self-esteem, on the assumption that high self-esteem will cause …

We will start with a riddle:“What does everyone want, yet no one is entirely sure what it is,
what it does, or where it can be found?” Although there may be more than one answer to this …

In this edited collection a distinguished set of contributors present a broad overview of
psychological research on self-esteem. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the …

Our 2003 article clashed with conventional wisdom by concluding that high self-esteem has
only a couple of benefits, notably high initiative (based on trusting one's own judgment) and …

The present meta-analysis tests the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem, by
synthesizing the available longitudinal evidence on prospective effects between global and …

Assumption 1: Human beings are motivated to preserve, protect, and occasionally enhance
their level of self-esteem. Assumption 2: High self-esteem is typically more desirable than …

Abstract J. Crocker and LE Park (2004) proposed both (a) that the importance of self-esteem
lies more in how people strive for it rather than whether it is high or low and (b) that the …