Term
Self-esteem
How a person evaluates themselves overall. Following Rosenberg, the author calls healthy self-esteem not a belief in your own perfection but a feeling that your good qualities are, on the whole, enough.
Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence, Gregory C. Elliott
Explained in
- Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence, Gregory C. Elliott
- Feeling Good, David Burns
How you feel about yourself and understand your own worth.
- The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt, Russ Harris
A person's opinion of their own worth, which depends on how they rate their successes and qualities.
- Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff
A judgment of your own worth: how good, capable and deserving a person believes they are. Neff shows that it often depends on success and on comparison with others.
- The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Nathaniel Branden
In Branden's definition, the disposition to experience yourself as competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and as worthy of happiness.
- Stop Checking Your Likes, Susie Moore
How a person sees their own worth overall. Moore teaches you to build it on your own opinion, not on other people's approval.
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
a person's inner sense of their own worth; it's easy to wound and important to protect in the other person