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Views on people with low self-esteem

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How would social-cognitive theory describe low self-esteem in the words of its own theoretical model? How does this theoretical model suggest means of assisting people to overcome their sense of low self-esteem?

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This solution discusses the ways in which social cognitve theory would describe low self-esteem in the words of its own theoretical model. It also offers suggestions on how to help people with low self-esteem based on that model.

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Some social cognitive theorists like Hazel Markus believe that self-esteem depends on how successfully we measure up to our own internal representations of the ideal self. Other social cognitive theorists like Tori Higgins believe that self-esteem depends on an individual's self-guides: personal standards that he/she feels the need to live up to. Conflicts between self-guides and how things really are for an individual can cause low self-esteem.

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