Self-Esteem and Beyond /

Self-esteem is a concept which everybody experiences, either positively or negatively, but there is some conceptual confusion in self-esteem theory and research arising from a failure to clearly distinguish between self-feelings and self-conceptions. This book addresses the issue by replicating past...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacKinnon, Neil Joseph, 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Self-concept, self-sentiment, and motivation
  • The dimensionality and levels of self-sentiment
  • Measuring self-sentiments
  • Pschological centrality and Rosenberg's interactive hypothesis
  • The failure to confirm Rosenberg's interactive hypothesis
  • Rosenberg's selectivity hypothesis
  • Summary and conclusion.