Low Self-Esteem
This research paper will discuss how people who lack confidence can always refute affirmations. The idea of self-esteem is determined by a measurement of someone’s achievements and accomplishments. This paper will examine how individuals with low self-esteem manage to only remember negative self-evaluations, even when surrounded by positivity. Most research supports the claim that people with negative self-views display a preference for negative evaluations. In many experiments, evidence supports that people with negative self-views seem to be drawn to people with common affirmations, rather than repeat or interact with those unlike them. People with low self-esteem tend to generalize their negative thoughts and forget the positive ones.
McKay, M., & Fanning, P. (2016). Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem. New Harbinger Publications.
Background: This book explores the internal “voice” that prompts a person to think negatively. Additionally, it assesses cognitive distortions and how irritable thinking lowers self-esteem.
Usage: This book will assist me in learning about the cognitive and psychological effects of self-rejection. Within this source, there is a series of chapters that give credible background information about self-rejection, and how the perception of one-self can affect every aspect of their life.
Van Lange, P. A. M., Kruglanski, A. W., & Higgins, E. T. (2011). Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume Two. SAGE Publications, Limited.
Background:This book provides reliable background knowledge on the self-verification theory. According to this source, people would prefer that others view them as they see themselves, even if that perception is negative. It also illustrates how those with poor self-views may experience greater difficulties in life than those who are able to bring positive changes.
Usage: This book will present data from a wide range of studies and experiments that support the idea that people with negative self-verification may find it difficult to make positive adjustments and that self-views are crucial to life for individuals.
Heimpel, S. A., Wood, J. V., Marshall, M. A., & Brown, J. D. (2002). Do people with low self-esteem really want to feel better? Self-esteem differences in motivation to repair negative moods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(1), 128–147
Background: This article supports the notion that those with low self-esteem are less motivated to change unfavorable thoughts and affirmations than those with high self-esteem. It provides evidence in favor of the claim that negative feelings reduce motivation and ability to regulate oneself.
Usage: This article discusses the potential causes of low self-esteem and examines a number of research studies that indicate differences in self-esteem are caused by knowledge on mood healing. This article’s research will give evidence for the claim that bad moods trigger bad thoughts rather than good ones.
Jhangiani, D. R., & Tarry, D. H. (2022). 3.2 The Feeling Self: Self-Esteem.
Background: This article provides accurate information on the subject of self-esteem. It proves that when a person feels inadequate and unworthy, they experience unpleasant emotions and low self-esteem. This self-esteem varies from day to day depending on a number of variables and how individuals perceive themselves.
Usage: This article will provide background information on how and why cognition affects our sense of self. The relationship between our real selves and our ideal selves will also be discussed.
Wood, J. V., Heimpel, S. A., Manwell, L. A., Link to external site, this link will open in a new tab, & Whittington, E. J. (2009). This mood is familiar and I don’t deserve to feel better anyway: Mechanisms underlying self-esteem differences in motivation to repair sad moods. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(2), 363–380.
Background: This journal article will present studies on why individuals with low self-esteem (LSE) are less motivated to lift their spirits and whether or not these beliefs of self-deservingness play a role. Researchers in this article show that people with low self-esteem might be stimulated by recollections of interpersonal rejection and defects.
Usage: In this journal, we’ll explore several possible causes of low self-esteem in people. Social rejection might make it difficult to keep optimistic thoughts in mind. The situational triggers of LSE, current research, and the usual moods for those who struggle with high self-esteem are all described in this article.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
I’m very impressed to see this post so early, BabyYoda.
I’ve improved it by adding links for your sources. That’s an essential component of the Proposal sources and everything you cite or reference at any time in the class. Links make you accountable to your sources.
I took a shortcut on the books in one or two places, linking to retailers who could deliver copies. The better approach, which I will leave to you, is to seek the titles in the Rowan Library’s database and link to THEIR listing. It may not make the book immediately available to your readers, but it will provide important credentialing details AND it might also provide content from their front- and back-matter pages, References, Abstracts, and the like.
Thank you for your feedback ! alot of the articles and journals I found, Rowan did not have access too hopefully everything else is fine for now?
This research paper will discuss how people who lack confidence can always refute affirmations.
—It might. But “discuss how” is to be avoided, like “talk about.” The paper might very well “describe the process” of refutation, which is what it means to say that it will “discuss how” people refute affirmations.
—But, more to your point, you predict that it will help you demonstrate “THAT people who lack confidence can always refute affirmations.”
—If it helps you show process, so much the better.
The idea of self-esteem is determined by a measurement of someone’s achievements and accomplishments.
—I’d say that’s THE IDEAL, but it doesn’t often work that way, does it? People with few accomplishments can be quite arrogant while the truly accomplished are often riddled with self-doubt.
This paper will examine how individuals with low self-esteem manage to only remember negative self-evaluations, even when surrounded by positivity.
—REMEMBER or attend to?
—”surrounded by positivity” means “encouraged by the positive assessments of others”? Or something else?
Most research supports the claim that people with negative self-views display a preference for negative evaluations.
—It might be useful here to acknowledge how counterintuitive it is for anyone to PREFER negative evaluations.
—Is prefer actually what you mean?
In many experiments, evidence supports that people with negative self-views seem to be drawn to people with common affirmations, rather than repeat or interact with those unlike them.
—Ummmm . . . unclear terms.
—”common affirmations” are affirmations; they’re positive. “Drawn to people” whose positive evaluations are similar to their own? Not what I was expecting.
People with low self-esteem tend to generalize their negative thoughts and forget the positive ones.
—As before, is having low self-esteem a matter of FORGETTING some evaluations and REMEMBERING others? Why the time-line?
—Maybe they CREDIT some evaluations and DISCREDIT or REJECT others?
I’m ridiculously picky, of course, and nothing I say here is meant to disparage your fine first draft. I’m genuinely thrilled to be collaborating with you on a project you appear to have embraced with vigor and skill.
A NOTE ON GRADING.
This Proposal+5 will grow to be a Proposal+10 and eventually your Annotated Bibliography. Rather than have several grades for the same project-in-progress, I’m going to assign it an ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY grade right off the bat and update it from time to time as needed based on the progress you make gathering and describing your sources. Yours is the BEST SO FAR (the only one so far), and it’s inherently of very high quality, so I’m grading it 95/100. To KEEP that grade all the way to the Portfolio, you’ll have to maintain the quality and content. This will be your first PORTFOLIO GRADE. Watch how fast it overwhelms your other grades based on its “weight” within the grading system.
Thanks again for posting early. I truly appreciate it, BabyYoda! 🙂
BabyYoda, here’s a copy of what I posted to the Page where you solicited my help for a Definition argument:
Baby Yoda says this in the Proposal+5:
Of course, accomplishments are somewhat objective, but their MEASUREMENT is always subjective. A business owner, one might think, could be justifiably proud of the company, but her self-evaluation could range all the way from “It’s really a barely profitable family business that I was largely handed and haven’t messed up” to “Since taking over this company, I managed to guide it through a global pandemic and five years of crippling inflation without going bankrupt!”: two equally honest evaluations, perhaps.
Sample illustrations of this sort would help demonstrate what the low-self-esteem response to any situation looks like. And that’s for a healthy-minded individual!
Many of your example subjects may suffer from cognitive distortions that won’t let them see reality clearly at all well enough to form accurate esteem assessments.
There may be a chance to create some categories of “low esteem sufferers,” BabyYoda.
—There are the Realists who insist the facts can only be correctly interpreted negatively.
—There may be the Monoculists who should be looking through both lenses of a set of binoculars but willfully close the eye that would see the good view.
—There are the Proud Failures who would be more upset to be given unearned praise than to receive justifiable criticism.
—You seem to be identifying a group of More Miserables who reinforce their negative self-views by socializing only with other “downers.”
And don’t forget that your effort to describe what a thing IS can always benefit from some details about what it is NOT. Without doing a complete Comparison/Contrast essay, you can sketch out some the differences between Low- and High-Self-Esteem individuals. Those big, confident braggarts suffer from the same sort of cognitive distortions as the whiners, just in the other direction.
And finally, which is the cause? (Maybe you’ll save this for your 1000-word Causal argument.) Does a sense of Worthlessness warp our perceptions of our actual accomplishments? Or does a failure to appreciate what we’ve accomplished prevent us from feeling Worthy of praise and self-esteem?
Helpful?
very helpful thank you! will points be taken off if word count is not exactly 1000?
No, of course not, BabyYoda. It’s a good target. But this is a first draft. You might take the opportunity to experiment.
For example, if you did your best to tailor your argument down to 1400 words and wanted advice on how to make your point more succinctly, I’d be happy to see an wordy first draft we could trim together.
If you’re submitting a draft radically shorter or longer than assigned, explain what you’re up to.