If your college or favorite sports team improves in the eyes of others, you might feel better about yourself—and vice versa. Here's what you need to know about how your identity impacts your self-esteem.
We construct a mental self-image on the basis of how other people treat us and how we differ from other people.Feelings of self-esteem are based on the value of one’s personal identity plus the combined value of one’s many social identities.It happened more than 30 years ago, but I vividly remember reading an illustrated children’s book to my 5-year-old daughter. In the book, white-skinned elephants and black-skinned elephants go to war and destroy each other.
Years ago, social psychologists Henri Tajfel and John Turner constructed a theory of in-group favoritism and its bosom buddy, cultural affirmation. Their highly regarded explanatory model is called social identity theory .. We aren’t born with an image of ourselves. Instead, we construct a mental image on the basis of two sets of interpersonal experiences—how other people treat us and how we differ from other people.
If a child is told he’s intelligent and Italian, he’ll probably come to think of himself as intelligent and Italian. If a child is treated as if she’s good at sports, chances are she’ll come to think of herself as good at sports. We construct our self-image, in part, on the basis of how other people treat us.
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