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Self-Esteem Check: Too Low, Too High, or Just Right?

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Self-Esteem Check: Too Low, Too High, or Just Right?

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Self-esteem is defined as your overall opinion of yourself- how you feel about your abilities, limitations, and your respect for yourself. When you have a healthy amount of self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and you see yourself as someone who deserves the respect of others. When you have low self esteem, you might constantly worry that you aren't enough or put little to no value in your opinions.

The list of things that can influence self esteem include:
-your thoughts and perceptions
-how other people react to you
-experiences at home, school, work and in the community
-illness, disability or injury
-age
-role and status in society
-media messages

I will talk about some of the factors in the other boxes.

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Overcome negative self-talk and low self-esteem by using techniques from mental health counseling.

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What Factors Influence Your Self-Esteem?

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What Factors Influence Your Self-Esteem?

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Society's Impact on Self-Esteem: Everyday, we are exposed to people's opinions on who or what we should be. There are many unrealistic expectations within those opinions which can be a major contributing factor when it comes to self-confidence. If we allow other peoples' ideas and rules of how we should live your life, you will simply never be truly happy.

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We spend a lot of time with our friends, family, and romantic partners and they can heavily influence our self-esteem. Are the people in your life supportive of you? Do they build you up, or drag you down? Think about the people you spend your time with and contemplate whether they are contributing to you having a healthy self-image of yourself or whether they are making you feel inadequate.

If the people in your life have a negative influence, communicate to them how they could be more supportive and set healthy boundaries. Let them know that you want to be in supportive relationships with people who uplift you. Make an effort to start seeking friendships and relationships with people that are positive and supportive.

The people in your life who are supportive and lift you up? Well, you know what to do with those! Keep them close, of course! Build eachother up and celebrate each other's confidence. When you surround yourself with healthy, loving, confident people, you will enjoy better relationships and better memories. AKA, you'll be happier!

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What Factors Influence Your Self-Esteem?

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We spend a lot of time with our friends, family, and romantic partners and they can heavily influence our self-esteem. Are the people in your life supportive of you? Do they build you up, or drag you down?

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4 Factors That Can Affect Your Self-Esteem

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4 Factors That Can Affect Your Self-Esteem

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Family and Friends: The people you spend time with have a huge influence on your self-esteem. Your friends can build up your self-confidence, self-image, and self-respect, or they can bring it down. The same applies to your family. Feelings of inadequacy can result in lower self-esteem while building each other up can lead to a higher self-esteem.

Work Environment: A majority of our time is spent at school or work. This environment tends to contribute a lot to your life, especially self-esteem. If you have a hard day of work, you are most likely going to be lacking in self-esteem because of it. Working in an encouraging and productive environment can increase your self-esteem and can help you grow stronger.

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Self-esteem plays a significant role in your life and has a profound impact on the choices that you make. Self-esteem determines what you consider yourself to be capable and worthy of doing.

When you have low self-esteem, you are at a higher risk of not fulfilling your real potential. Numerous factors can influence your self-esteem. These four factors can either build up your self-esteem or pull it down.
Your Childhood
Your childhood is one of the leading contributing factors to your self-esteem. During your childhood, as your personality and everything else is developing, everyone you encounter has the potential to influence who you become, this includes your self-esteem. For example, children that grow up in unstable households tend to have lower self-confidence and self-esteem and often end up carrying that burden with them throughout their entire lives.
The Media
Our complete obsession with the media, whether its social media, television or print ads, contributes to the widespread self-esteem issues that our society faces. The instant access to social media is especially damaging to young minds with the constant pressure to look and act like public figures, celebrities, and their peers.
Friends and Family
The people that you spend time around have a considerable influence on your self-esteem. Your friends can help you build your self-confidence, your self-image, and self-respect, or they can bring it down. Unfortunately, there are those in our lives that will purposely try to harm our self-esteem to build themselves up.

Your family can also positively or negatively affect your self-esteem. Feelings of inadequacy when it comes to providing for your family can contribute to low self-esteem while working together as a family and building one another up, can contribute to a healthy self-esteem.
Work Environment
The majority of your time is spent at school or at work. The environment tends to influence every aspect of your life, including your self-esteem. If you have a stressful and overly demanding position, it can often contribute to low self-esteem. Working in an encouraging and productive environment can have a positive influence on your self-esteem and can help you grow stronger.

Many factors can influence your self-esteem. Every part of your life can affect it, but the person that has the most control over your self-esteem is you. Start giving yourself good messages about who you are and stop beating yourself up in order to improve your self-esteem.

If you would like some support with building with creating strategies to boost your self-esteem, get in touch for a Complimentary Discovery Call.

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4 Factors That Can Affect Your Self-Esteem | Claire Buck Coaching

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When you have low self-esteem, you are at a higher risk of not fulfilling your real potential. Numerous factors can influence your self-esteem. These four factors can either build up your self-esteem or pull it down. Your Childhood Your childhood is one of the leading contributing factors to your self-esteem.

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Factors Influencing the Development of Self-Esteem

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Factors Influencing the Development of Self-Esteem

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Self esteem is seen as something that develops through "nature and nurture". A child's biological strengths and weaknesses (nature) and heir interactions with family and social environment. Contradictory to the orange article, this one states that parents have little to no control over their child's self-esteem.
Supposedly, children born with easy-going temperaments tend to be more "chilled out" and more likely to go with the flow.
They tend to have more patience when it comes to difficult situations than other kids born with more emotionally volatile temperaments.

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Like many aspects of child development, self-esteem is a product of two interacting forces often described as nature and nurture. Children's biological strengths and weaknesses (nature) influence their developing self-esteem, but so too do their interactions with family and the social environment (nurture).

Parents have little or no control over the impact of nature on the development of children's self-esteem. First, children's basic temperament (the biologically determined initial personality style they have from birth) influences how they will experience any given situation. For instance, youth born with easy-going temperaments tend to take things in stride, do not respond with great emotion to stressful circumstances, and tend to have more patience when dealing with challenging situations in comparison with peers born with more emotionally volatile temperaments. For more information about temperament, see the Infancy Development Article.

Furthermore, difficult and stressful early life experiences including childhood illness, sustained hospitalization, household moves, family changes, death in the family, and abuse can limit or overwhelm children's development and affect the evolution of their beliefs and descriptions of themselves. Children's early relationships and interactions with caregivers, peers, and teachers also has a large effect on how children see themselves and how they cope with challenging situations.

The impossibly stressful, difficult to control experiences that "come with the territory" of being alive certainly shape and influence children's developing self-esteem, but they do not wholly determine it. Self-esteem is very much a social process in that how people comes to see themselves is heavily influenced by how others see and treat them. Though self-esteem refers to a self-judgment, this judgment is easily influenced by the way children are treated by others and whether or not they have a positive experience of themselves while interacting with others. Therefore, parents play a vital role in helping children to develop a positive a positive self-esteem since parents are the "others" that children interact with most frequently. There are no people in the world more important to young children than their parents. Parents exert this influence over children's self-esteem by paying attention to how they communicate, express love and attention, encourage children to take on challenges, foster independence, and encourage socialization. We cover each of these topics in detail in the following sections of this document.

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Factors Influencing the Development of Self-esteem

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Like many aspects of child development, self-esteem is a product of two interacting forces often described as nature and nurture. Children's biological strengths and weaknesses (nature) influence their developing self-esteem, but so too do their interactions with family and the social environment (nurture).

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Factors Influencing the Development of self-Esteem

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Factors Influencing the Development of self-Esteem

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Difficult or stressful early life experiences including, illness or sustained hospitalization, household moves, family changes, death in the family, and abuse can affect a child's evolution of their beliefs and view of themselves.

Although this article states that parents have no control over their child's self esteem, it explains that self-esteem is a social process and is easily influenced by how other see and treat them on a daily basis. Therefore, parents play a huge role in helping children develop a positive self esteem about themselves because they are the people that children spend most of their time with.

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Self-Esteem Check: Too High, Too Low, or Just Right?

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Self-Esteem Check: Too High, Too Low, or Just Right?

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Self-esteem tends to fluctuate over time, depending on your circumstances.  It's normal to go through times when you feel down about yourself and times when you feel good about yourself. Generally, however, self-esteem stays in a range that reflects how you feel about yourself overall, and increases slightly with age.

There are obviously two sides to self-esteem- low self esteem and high self esteem. Some benefits of high self-esteem include the following:

Assertive in expressing your needs and opinions

Confident in your ability to make decisions

Able to form secure and honest relationships — and less likely to stay in unhealthy ones

Realistic in your expectations and less likely to be overcritical of yourself and others

More resilient and better able to weather stress and setback

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Overcome negative self-talk and low self-esteem by using techniques from mental health counseling.

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What Factors Influence Your Self-Esteem?

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What Factors Influence Your Self-Esteem?

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Confidence and Self-Esteem During Childhood: When we're kids, we are still growing into our personalities and learning bout who we want to be as a person. We look around to see if we "fit in". This has a huge impact on us in the future and who we become as a person.  the people in our early life play a huge part in who we become later in life. This can include parents, teachers, and coaches.

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We spend a lot of time with our friends, family, and romantic partners and they can heavily influence our self-esteem. Are the people in your life supportive of you? Do they build you up, or drag you down? Think about the people you spend your time with and contemplate whether they are contributing to you having a healthy self-image of yourself or whether they are making you feel inadequate.

If the people in your life have a negative influence, communicate to them how they could be more supportive and set healthy boundaries. Let them know that you want to be in supportive relationships with people who uplift you. Make an effort to start seeking friendships and relationships with people that are positive and supportive.

The people in your life who are supportive and lift you up? Well, you know what to do with those! Keep them close, of course! Build eachother up and celebrate each other's confidence. When you surround yourself with healthy, loving, confident people, you will enjoy better relationships and better memories. AKA, you'll be happier!

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What Factors Influence Your Self-Esteem?

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We spend a lot of time with our friends, family, and romantic partners and they can heavily influence our self-esteem. Are the people in your life supportive of you? Do they build you up, or drag you down?

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4 Factors That Can Affect Your Self-Esteem

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4 Factors That Can Affect Your Self-Esteem

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Your Childhood: Children who grow up in unstable households tend to lack self-esteem and self-confidence and tend to carry that through their lives.

The Media: Our obsession with the media is often very damaging especially to young minds, who are felt pressured to act like public figures, celebrities, and their peers.

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Self-esteem plays a significant role in your life and has a profound impact on the choices that you make. Self-esteem determines what you consider yourself to be capable and worthy of doing.

When you have low self-esteem, you are at a higher risk of not fulfilling your real potential. Numerous factors can influence your self-esteem. These four factors can either build up your self-esteem or pull it down.
Your Childhood
Your childhood is one of the leading contributing factors to your self-esteem. During your childhood, as your personality and everything else is developing, everyone you encounter has the potential to influence who you become, this includes your self-esteem. For example, children that grow up in unstable households tend to have lower self-confidence and self-esteem and often end up carrying that burden with them throughout their entire lives.
The Media
Our complete obsession with the media, whether its social media, television or print ads, contributes to the widespread self-esteem issues that our society faces. The instant access to social media is especially damaging to young minds with the constant pressure to look and act like public figures, celebrities, and their peers.
Friends and Family
The people that you spend time around have a considerable influence on your self-esteem. Your friends can help you build your self-confidence, your self-image, and self-respect, or they can bring it down. Unfortunately, there are those in our lives that will purposely try to harm our self-esteem to build themselves up.

Your family can also positively or negatively affect your self-esteem. Feelings of inadequacy when it comes to providing for your family can contribute to low self-esteem while working together as a family and building one another up, can contribute to a healthy self-esteem.
Work Environment
The majority of your time is spent at school or at work. The environment tends to influence every aspect of your life, including your self-esteem. If you have a stressful and overly demanding position, it can often contribute to low self-esteem. Working in an encouraging and productive environment can have a positive influence on your self-esteem and can help you grow stronger.

Many factors can influence your self-esteem. Every part of your life can affect it, but the person that has the most control over your self-esteem is you. Start giving yourself good messages about who you are and stop beating yourself up in order to improve your self-esteem.

If you would like some support with building with creating strategies to boost your self-esteem, get in touch for a Complimentary Discovery Call.

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4 Factors That Can Affect Your Self-Esteem | Claire Buck Coaching

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When you have low self-esteem, you are at a higher risk of not fulfilling your real potential. Numerous factors can influence your self-esteem. These four factors can either build up your self-esteem or pull it down. Your Childhood Your childhood is one of the leading contributing factors to your self-esteem.

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