PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carol Dweck, Motivation, Mindset
22 Jul 2018
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Motivation, achievement & how to talk to children. Since 1969"s the psychology of self-esteem a massive social movement has emphasised children"s self esteem as the central factor in determining a successful childhood, then life. If children/people have high self esteem, they will try hard, achieve, have friends etc. If children have low self esteem, they will fail in school, have no friends, become drug addicts etc. So the focus became centred on cultivating high self esteem. Clearly, liking yourself is better than hating yourself, and praising children better is than emotionally abusing them, but many aspects of this story turns out to be wrong. millennials do appear to have high self esteem, so in one sense this movement worked. However, constant indiscriminate praise appears to lead to more fragile self esteem instead of a sense of earned secure self esteem.
