Word: selfesteem
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...other hand, according to the study, people who don't use Crest suffer from low selfesteem, loneliness and the black plague...
...convinced that I am a failure, I probably will fail. If I am having trouble with a problem and I am assured that I am smart enough to figure out the answer, I will probably try harder, newly aware that it is within my grasp. However, the all-powerful selfesteem workshop can be very dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, especially when the information we have been given about self-esteem is somewhat questionable...
...questionable? We will get to that shortly. But first, what is selfesteem anyway? How exactly does one measure this elusive, fairy-dust quality? What it is seems straightforward enough: it is how much one esteems oneself (hence, "self-esteem"). Yet, what a researcher needs is something tangible to measure. So he or she asks such questions as appeared on the AAUW survey. Students were asked, for example, to respond "always true," "usually true," "sometimes true," or "rarely true," to the statement "I am good at a lot of things." But does answering "always true" really mean that one has high...
This probably does not account for all of the gender gap in selfesteem scores. Everyone is aware that adolescence is a hard time, and it is especially hard for girls. The depiction of females in movies, on television and especially in advertising ranges from the unattainable to the disgusting. It is frustrating for the average young woman to be told that she should grow up to be like a society's goddess like Cindy Crawford, and it is insulting and dangerous to say she should desire to look like Kate Moss. In addition to this pressure, girls often become victims...
...math and science than Asian school children. But, according to Sommers, tests have shown that American children have much more faith in their math and science abilities than do Asian students. It seems that self-esteem is the only thing Americans score well on. Perhaps raising our students' selfesteem is not that important, and we should be focussing more on education. But what about the gender gap just within our borders...