Romantic Break Up

While it is perceived that men experience less emotions after break ups, according to the article “Men May Be More Vulnerable to Roller Coaster Ride of Romance,” studies reveal that males are emotionally involved, and that they actually benefit more from the good parts of the relationship and are more harmed by the bad than women. Consistent with this, our textbook points out that romance has a powerful impact on an adolescent’s emotional state (Steinberg, pg 343, 2014).

A generalization I can make from “ Painful Memories of Dating” by Dave Barry, is that dating can be awkward and discouraging because it can lead to a demolish of self-esteem. For example, when Dave implies the fear of dating, “ There [is] always the possibility that a girl would say no, thereby leaving me with no viable option” (Barry 401). Being human, we long to be accepted and wanted. It hurts to be rejected and to experience loss. If we can notice our self-criticisms and tendency to sink into the shame of being a failure and accept our pain just as it is, we move toward healing. Our suffering is intensified when not only do we feel hurt, but we think something’s wrong with us for feeling it. Also, after Dave’s mom drops him and his date,

Over the course of adolescence, people interact with one another, forming relationships, whether they are healthy or unhealthy. There is a large correlation between the self-esteem of the two people, and the state of their relationship. The lower one’s self-esteem in a relationship is, the unhealthier their relationship is likely to be. Conversely, a healthy or unhealthy relationship can also raise or lower one’s self-esteem. In the 1999 film “10 Things I Hate About You,” the relationship between Kat Stratford and Patrick Verona is an example of how a healthy relationship can raise one’s self esteem, while the relationship between Bianca Stratford and Chastity Church shows how a low self-esteem can lead to an unhealthy relationship.

Self-Esteem can be harmful and make people very self centered, but others lack confidence and need a boost of self-esteem. Self-esteem is a very important factor in various reasons that happens in people’s daily life. With no type of thought people don’t think or take self-esteem with importance without realizing that self-esteem is a huge thing that us humans depend for our daily activities. Some shifts that have happened toward self- esteem over the past few decades were the fact that many people don’t really get an effect of having a boost of self-esteem in order for them to reach success. Therefore, self-esteem is not important in the success of individuals but it is important in their well being and psychological health.

The concept of self esteem is widespread in life. When it comes to academics and extracurricular actives people associate high self esteem is necessary for success. Society makes promoting self esteem an important goal. With that in mind, it is surprising that only recently scientific literature began providing insight into the nature of development of self esteem.

If someone was to spend their time around people who have just experienced a breakup, they are unlikely to have the same experience with each person. They could find that although one person is in a bad way, another could come across though they haven't been affected.

Break up to make up... it's all you... and I do and it's crazy! We love, we hurt and we heal, but how many times can we go through the same madness? We go to bed thinking about that one person we love to hate or is it that we hate to love them?

Hypothesis one predicted that spouse’s insecure attachment and relationship quality would be negatively correlated. Significant partner effects were found, indicating that one spouse’s insecure attachment was negatively correlated with the other spouse’s low relationship quality. Results were also in accordance with hypothesis two which predicted that one spouse’s insecure attachment would elicit lower interpersonal trust, and consequently poorer relationship quality for both spouses. Results also supported hypothesis three which predicted indirect effects of attachment orientation on partner's loneliness via relationship quality. One spouse’s insecure attachment lead to poorer relationship quality, and thus greater loneliness, for both

Do you feel frustrated and angry about your breakup? Have you recently started to feel really angry with your ex for how they treated you and some of the things that they said to you when they broke up with you? While things might not have been perfect, you really don't understand why your ex left you and why they won't give your relationship a second chance. What can you do with these emotions? Did you know that feeling a little miffed can actually help you if your desire is to get back together with your ex?

This self-esteem scale (Rosenberg, 1965) includes 10 statements that are used to measure out self-satisfaction and self-esteem. Each item is scored on a Likert scale that ranges from 1 (strongly agree) to 4 (strongly disagree). The 10 statements are divided in half with the first five being positive self-esteem statements and the other five being negative self-esteem statements. The scores were totaled and ranged from 10-40 points. The higher the score was this indicated a high self-esteem and vice versa with a low score resulting in low self-esteem.

The results confirm the essential characteristics of three attachment styles. In comparison with both insecure groups, secure subjects were relatively trusting in their romantic relationships and had high self-confidence. The two insecure groups share important features, because they got similar scores on most of the measures that separated them from the secure subjects. The two insecure groups are very different in some ways. The major characteristic of the avoidant style is the avoidance of intimacy, as these subjects responded to on the background questions. The subjects characterized in the anxious-ambivalent group were placed by dependence and by the strong desire for commitment in relationships. Their responses of love indicate endorsement of a neurotic rather than a circumspect or companionate form of love. The results also suggest implications for relationship quality. It is possible that secure subjects may be more “successful” than the other styles in their relationship and this is based of off two findings: their greater mean relationship length and their low scores on the Unfulfilled Hopes scales. These results can only prove indirect evidence concerning relationship satisfaction, and would usefully be approached by further research with more direct measures of relationship processes and

The questionnaire contains five positive Items about having self-value For instance “ I feel that I have a number of good qualities.” The remaining Five items express valueless stamens for example “I certainly feel useless at times. “The items on the self-esteem scale are scored on a 4 point Likert scale, the score of 1 being strongly disagree to the score of 4 being strongly agree. Scores are then calculated; higher scores reflect a higher self-esteem and lower scores reflect a lower self-esteem. In Sinclair et al. (2010) study he reported high internal consistency for the RSES in an American community sample (α = .91), and good convergent and divergent validity. Also in his study, he reported high consistency with Cronbach’s alpha of .89 which demonstrated reliability.

College tends to be a time when exclusive non-marital relationships flourish and then sadly most times dissolve. The dissolution of these relationships can bring a lot of anger and stress to one’s life. Its raised the question; are there contributing factors that cause these results to continue to fester even after a significant time of separation? The researchers of “Sexuality and spirituality as predictors of distress over a romantic breakup: Mediated and moderated pathways” (Hawley et al., 2014), examined the intersecting roles of sexual activity and religion/spirituality in college students’ adjustment to non-marital romantic breakups. The precursors researched for prolonged distress was sexual activity in the partnership prior to separation and the imbued spiritual or religious significance in the partnership.

Anxiety and Self-esteem are factors that are part of many individuals’ everyday lives. Anxiety is the constant distress, worry, and fear of everyday conditions or situations, while, self-esteem is the way a person evaluates, feels, or view about themselves. Studying anxiety and self-esteem are important because they may influence people’s lives, such as their actions, responses to either their internal or external environments, emotions, decisions, or relationships with themselves and or other people. For this particular study, the hypothesis suggest that it is predicted that anxiety has a strong, negative correlation with self-esteem in college students. Even though there is not much research conducted on the relation between these two variables (Mustafa et al., 2015), the research that was conducted conveys that examining anxiety and self-esteem in relation to each other is important.

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the level of self-esteem and academic performance of PSY105 student at the HELP University Campus in 2014. Convenience sampling was used to collect the 30 samples from the population, without specific gender and ethnicity. Based on the literature it is stated that having a high self-esteem produces higher academic performance. The researcher used an existing Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale to obtain a raw data of each participant. The statistical test used is the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. The study was based on a non-experimental correlational design. The results shows a significant negative correlation between the level of self-esteem and academic performance, this concludes the level of self-esteem do influence academic performance.