Rejection and self-esteem
In 2005, researchers from the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago carried out a study to assess the impact of rejection on physical self esteem. Physical self esteem indicates how you evaluate yourself physically, and there are two kinds of self esteem. Trait self esteem is stable over time, whereas state self esteem, which reflects current feelings, is changeable. High trait self esteem is associated with positive qualities such as life satisfaction, leadership, resilience to stress and confidence.
Leen Vandevelde and Motohide Miyahara (School of Physical Education, University of Otago) were interested to see whether high trait physical self esteem (TPSE) students were able to maintain their self-esteem better than low TPSE students when rejected from the group activity,as well as whether self-esteem decreases more significantly when rejection is based on physical qualities rather than purely by chance. This lesson looks at some of these questions using the data collected in the study.
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