Self Esteem Leads To Success

In today's generation, most young, female, teenagers have problems with the way they look, their appearance, or their bodies. Females have a lower self esteem already without society and social medias pressure to conform. Self esteem is a realistic respect for or favorable impression of oneself; self-respect. Males generally have higher self esteem level than females, therefore, more adolescent females struggle with eating disorders, self esteem issues, and often thoughts of suicide. Research and evidence suggests that a majority of young females lack of self esteem comes from social media and society's pressure to have a perfect body, or appearance and if females do not then we should conform to the standards placed before females by social media and society. In my opinion being a teenage girl in today's generation is so hard because so much is expected from adolescent females. Young females are expected to achieve beauty, intelligence, and social standards in a world that is constantly tearing down every movement women make toward independence. Social media and society does put pressure on young women to look a certain way, and if they do not achieve this look like the world portrays as beauty then their self esteem begins to drop in young females.

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.

Furthermore, media surrounds teenage girls in today’s culture. It is impossible to escape the sight of media. The media’s constant idealistic beauty is ever present to a vast amount of self-conscious girls. This image of beauty causes girls to have low self-esteem (Clay, Vignoles, and Dittmar). Media defining this perfect body image causes many adolescent girls to feel dissatisfied with their bodies and become depressed. “Viewing ultra-thin or average-size models led to decreases in both body satisfaction and self-esteem in adolescent girls aged eleven to sixteen, with changes in self-esteem fully mediated by changes in body satisfaction” (Clay, Vignoles, and Dittmar).

First, Pipher blames the low self respect of adolescent girls everything from parents to peers, but mainly faults our society as a whole. We are all guilty of getting caught up in the media, television, and magazines. “Have you seen Rosie? She has lost so much weight!” “Oprah gained all of her weight back and more!” These are just a few of the comments that are made after watching two of the most watched talk shows. I know these comments sound harmless, but to a young girl who is struggling with the perfect body image these comments reinforce the importance of appearance. Pipher also points out that intelligent girls are more prone to depression because they are more aware of their surroundings and therefore more aware of the new constraints they face as they leave childhood. Our society idealizes tall, dark

I have been worried about my looks my whole life. It was most evident when I began junior high and things were changing. Girls started getting curvier, wearing makeup and getting prettier. We were compared to the models that we would see in our Cosmo magazines. In Junior High, my parents bought me a phone, therefore, I downloaded every social media that ever existed. I would post the pictures that I looked best in because appearances were everything. A girl at any age is afraid of being judged and it seems that for me, as a

self esteem cultivates success. The greater our self esteem, the better equipped we are to deal with life’s daily challenges and stressors. Positive self esteem enables us to handle problems and bounce back from them quicker.

Though body image is not something I have issues with, but I have friends who can’t see their own worth because they believe that beauty is something defined by the front of a magazine. I watch them look in the mirror and pinch at their body, wishing they were thinner because then maybe they would “beautiful.” They think they are ugly, fat, stupid, a spaz, or any other classic school ground insult, and despite having many friends who tell them otherwise, they believe those lies. They are so caught up in their negative comments they tell themselves, that they do not realize they are drowning. Everything is so muddled up in their head, they can not see the light because they are surrounded by their own walls, built up so high, not even the sun shines through. Our society has a saying, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” but that is so far from the truth. Sure, stones leave visible scars, but they can be treated, healed; words on the other hand, the mark they leave is so much more detrimental. For wounds left by words can not be fixed or treated, they just stay there, forever a scar. So the next time you’re going to

Society has set certain stereotypes to girls and women about what it is considered to be beautiful that girl’s focus more in their appearances than in their internal selves. Every girl deserves to feel beautiful because they all are, but how can girls think that they are beautiful if there is always that constant reminder of what being considered beautiful is. It is often seen on TV various shows where little girls are being judged by the way they walk, turn, how their makeup and hair is done and what they are wearing, and obviously their beauty. Society has set such high standards of what is considered beautiful and girls are being the victims of those standards. Girls now feel that they are not beautiful enough because they do not meet

“Self-esteem refers to the regard in which an individual holds himself or herself, and it enhances resilience by motivating behavior” (Gecas 1982; Rosenberg [1965] 1989). Self-esteem effects teens, especially girls in many ways. Some girls have

When you have Low self esteem that is what you think about a lot. people are always losing weight but sometimes it isn’t healthy. 44% of high school girls are trying to lose weight and 15% of guys. studies show that kids between 15 and 17 will skip out on daily activities such as going to school. They do it because of the way they feel about their look. 40% of middle school boys start to work out in an attempt to increase their muscle mass. over 75% of girls with low self esteem turn to bad things like cutting themselves, smoking, drinking, etc. that means only 25% of girls have high self esteem. 38% of high school and middle school students admitted that they had used protein supplements. 6% said they had used steroids

Because of society we have bullying happening, and it has caused people to have eating disorders, and get surgical replacements done to their bodies. People have become anorexic, bulimic, and have or done other things to lose weight because they weren’t “pretty or cute” enough for others to see or like them. “When they begin puberty... the body goes through many changes... These changes, combined with wanting to feel accepted by our friends, means it can be tempting to compare ourselves with others. We might start to compare ourselves with other people or media images ("ideals" that are frequently airbrushed). All of this can affect how we feel about ourselves and our bodies... Family members might struggle with their own body image or criticize their kids' looks ("why do you wear your hair so long?" or "how come you can't wear pants that fit you?"). Although these often come from ignorance, sometimes they can affect body image and self-esteem” (www.kidshealth.org). Many parents seem to think that they know their kids like the palm of their hands, however very few of them see that they’re child struggles with their body image. Body image has influenced all of us, whether it’s in a minor or dramatic way, by making us shower more or brush our hair more, or maybe even by making we go anorexic or getting plastic surgery. Everyone wants to be something close to perfect but everyone is looking out

In this day and age, the epidemic of these so called ‘beauty’ standards is only getting worse and worse. Because of photo modification, low self esteem in regular everyday people is starting to become something that is nearly considered normal. Today, 42% of girls from age 5-8 want to be skinnier, 52% of girls aged 9 to 13 feel better when they are dieting and by the age of 17, 78% of girls are unhappy with their own bodies. Think about

In today’s’ society, success is often measured by academic and professional achievement. Higher education provides more opportunity and freedom. Statistics verify that generally, the more highly educated have higher earnings and there is a significant difference between wages earned by employees with College degrees and those without. Higher education is often perceived as a means to a ‘better life’ .Though many recognize the benefits of higher education, the rate at which students leave in their first year of College is still very high. Students leave their first year of College for

More and more opportunities automatically come the way of the person with a good self-confidence. In short, success flows to those who have a genuine self-confidence.

Dove’s Self Esteem project was made for young girls because more young girls struggle with having low self-esteem between the ages of seven to seventeen than most people realize. Not having good self-esteem takes a toll on young girls and causes them to miss out on many opportunities while growing up. Dove stated “six in ten girls avoid participating in fundamental life activities because of concerns about the way they look”. I found this very