ABSTRACT
How one feels about himself or herself has been an important factor in explaining human behavior. Self-esteem represents an affective evaluation of one’s worth. It suggests how a person values his or her own importance and place in the surrounding environment. Self-esteem is presumed to possess trait properties of self-evaluation, transcending individual situations. Rosenberg, Schooler, Schoenbach, and Rosenberg (1995), though, have differentiated between global self-esteem and specific self-esteem, the latter being more situational and fleeting (e.g., academic self-esteem). They noted that global self-esteem would be more relevant to psychological well-being than specific self-esteem. Self-esteem has typically been employed as an antecedent, mediating, or moderating factor in research studies.
