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's Self-Esteem

The mental, emotional and physical is closely related to our self-esteem!

But what is self-esteem?

And how can we do to "feel good about ourselves?"

To answer the first question "What is self-esteem is necessary to make a small step back and understand that scenario it is located. This scenario is the "self concept", which in simple terms the "world" or the image inside "that each has of himself. That image is developed since from early childhood in relation to how others relate to us in a more specific in relation to other people's reactions to our behavior.

Self-esteem is to be determined by various objective and subjective information ricondubili three types of self: The

1. real self, which is the objective assessment of our abilities, skills and characteristics . The perceived self
2. , consisting precisely the image that we have in our real self, ourselves, or in a subjective view of those abilities, characteristics and quality that we are present and absent. The
3. ideal self, however, is described as what we would like or think we ought to be. It is influenced by culture and society.

Self-esteem is then evaluated, a "self-esteem," about the information contained in the concept of self . It is the emotional reaction we experience when we observe and evaluate aspects of ourselves, connected to our personal beliefs regarding the abilities and skills, our social relationships, ...

This view we have of ourselves, we develop from childhood, however, can not be described in a one-dimensional. Self-esteem, in contrast, is a multidimensional concept and non-unitary. It encompasses a variety of ways, for example

Ø the social inherent in the way I feel when I'm with the others, I feel appreciated or not?

Ø What school - working on to what I feel competent and adequate in accomplishing tasks

Ø What family inherent The way I see it, my family lived in the ccontesto.

Ø What body, or the court about how I feel physically

It should be stressed that the level of self-worth, whether positive or negative, affects our self-efficacy, or the "belief in their ability to organize and implement the course of action necessary to properly manage the situations we meet in order to achieve the desired results "(Bandura, 1986), and then trust that a person puts in their ability to tackle a specific task.

A good and healthy self-esteem is a useful factor for socio-emotional adjustment, it is the basis of a "mental functioning" and thus a success in the life of the subject.

often run into problems with self-esteem due to a discrepancy between self, a difference between the perceived self and ideal self, when in fact the gap is very high, you are faced with a very low self-esteem. However, very often incurs a decline in their self-esteem because of emotional disturbances related to anxiety, anger, guilt, suffering and loneliness.

Altrettando often drop in our self-esteem is due to having experienced failures in the field social, occupational and / or school, family, ...

In the aforementioned examples may be used to some strategies to improve and protect their self-esteem:

1. selectively assign importance to those goals that we can potentially achieve.
2. Resize the importance of failures
3. not be too strict with themselves in terms of self-evaluation.

Dr. Claudia Distefano