PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Puberty, Emotional Reasoning, Parenting Styles

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3BA3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Second test: positive emotions, se and self efficacy. High self esteem leads to growth choice: if you feel you are capable, you are more likely to engage in uncertain and challenging choices that often lead to lead to greater self development. Rogers: related to be our authentic self (true self) Bandura & mischel: self efficacy, how do we evaluate ourselves. Self esteem are one of the top three covariates in personality and social psychology research: gender, negative affect, self esteem. Low self esteem is a component in vary of mental disorders (social anxiety, sadness, anger, shame . ) and cause many negative outcomes. State self esteem: how do you feel yourself now (temporary) Self esteem as an attitude: an evaluation on ourselves, not emotion. As an emotion (how we like ourselves) As self/ideal match (contract of what we are now and what we should be) The closer we come to our ideal self, the higher the self esteem.