Research log 2

Kwan, Virginia, Oliver John, Seinenu Thein. "Broadening the research on self-esteem: A new scale for longitudinal studies." Self & Identity. 6.1 (2007): 20-40. Print.

In the article " broadening the research on self-esteem: A new scale for longitudinal studies" by virginia Kwan and and other they discussed the life span of self-esteem from when it starts in a person to when it ends in a person, and mainly dealing with age.  They also talked about the different ways it can start in a person life, such as how drastic or dramatic experiences have a greater impact in either raising or lowering ones self-esteem.  Again in this journal there was a lot of studies and research done that was clearly laid out in charts to help make it easier to represent the information they found.  The authors dealt a lot with the adult aspect of  self-esteem and the affects it had on your actions in life and in the work world.  They later discussed the history of self-esteem, and the first ever test used to measure it.  They showed all the test used from back in the 70's till now, and they talked about how certain test only worked on a certain group of people whether it was a different age or gender.  Competence and social acceptance were to main themes and definitions given for self-esteem, and it was stated that they have been a part of the changing definition of self-esteem since it was discovered.

I liked this journal because it had tons and tons of new information such as test, studies, definitions, and results that i have never related to self-esteem before.  the charts that were used to describe all of the studies and results were ver helpful because i probably wouldn't have been able to understand the information if it was laid out as clearly as it was.  Another reason this was very helpful is because most articles i have found on self-esteem have dealt with younger kids or teens and this one dealt a lot with older people of both male and female so it was a lot of new information.  I did wish this reading talked more about the negative affects of too much positive self-esteem.