Essay on Self-esteem and Impression Management

Sports management is a really broad field, therefore I decided to focus on my minor and one of my major interests of this field: coaching. In this paper I will be explaining my personal five building blocks that make up a well-rounded coaching philosophy and coach. Those blocks are; leadership, organization, attitude, respect, and resiliency. Each of these five aspects are equally important and balance each other out. Leadership, the action of leading a group of athletes towards a goal. Organization, being able to organize a team and have a plan in order to help the team achieve goals. Attitude, it is very important for a coach to have a winning and positive attitude that is contagious to the players. Respect, there has to be a good

Can self-esteem really engender success, or does it induce the well-being of individuals? By success, I mean academic achievement and a college degree. Self-esteem is crucial to the well-being and happiness of individuals. However, too much self-esteem makes people become narcissistic, which is destructive and superfluous to becoming successful. Therefore, self-esteem cannot engender success, which is corroborated with the self-esteem movement, but it can cause the well-being of individuals.

Most people face self esteem problems at different levels. At some point in life people face this problem without realizing it. In the essay The Trouble with Self-Esteem written by Lauren Slater starts of by demonstrating a test. Self esteem test that determines whether you have a high self-esteem or low self-esteem. The question to be answered however is; what is the value and meaning of self-esteem? The trouble with self-esteem is that not everyone approaches it properly, taking a test or doing research based of a certain group of people is not the way to do so.

Within my daily interactions in my life, I observed impression management with my younger brother at his basketball tryouts. Impression management is defined as “the communication strategies people use to influence on how others view them” ( Chapter 4, 80). An example of that happened a month ago at my brothers’ basketball tryouts, my brother from what he perceived to me when we

There is also the looking-glass self is a concept by which we think of ourselves the way people see us. By impression management, we mean that our

At Clear Choice Coaching we are changing our thought process and model from devoting ourselves to winning. We have recognized that this visual is not a long lasting fruitful one to use because there is more to life than the score of the game. We wanted to use a model that provided results and addresses an engaging model for our coaches and athletes to follow. We wanted to address player’s lives in and out of the competitive arena. With this thinking becoming a part of the fabric of our organization we recognized that individuals can choose the way they think and these thoughts can be achieved through the application of specific cognitive strategies and ultimately impact our administrative and athletic performance. With the help of a sport psychology

Studies have shown that coaches should have an enhanced empathetic understanding of how to manage individual and team developments when it comes to undertaking sport and social resolutions. Athletes need to be able to deal with their doubts of disappointment and accomplishments. This should be explained to the athletes because not being able to manage their uncertainties when it comes to their performance can have consequences in multiple domains of their life (quote 2). There are numerous ways to appraise our coaching techniques and be effective with the quality service we provide and it is important to be able to develop and sustain our athlete’s performance in a distinct tailored manor because as coaches and for the clients we mentor it

Therefore in addition to the social sciences and pedagogic literature I have tried to review its application within sports coaching.

Facebook is addicting and people spend a majority of their time on that website hoping for a “like”, so when they don’t get the validation of a “like” they think no one likes them and get upset. Likewise, comparing other’s life to their own increases the negative thoughts running through one’s brain. On an article published on Forbes’s website, Alice G. Walton writes “It turned out that people who logged more Facebook time not only had more depressive symptoms, but that social comparison – in any direction – was the mediator, and for both sexes. In other words, it didn’t matter whether a person was making upward, downward, or neutral social comparison – they were all linked to a greater likelihood for depressive symptoms.” Also, as mentioned above, staying inside all day staring at a screen will negatively affect a person’s mental health. In a short article published in Time Magazine, journalist Alice Park writes “Scientists found that healthy teens who used the Internet obsessively--reporting that they felt moody or nervous when not online--were 2.5 times more likely to become depressed nine months later than less frequent surfers were.” (Park) This information shows that the internet is having a negative effect on the younger

As a coach, having a foundation and a philosophy for your team to follow is fundamental for team execution and success. Through my experience, hardships, and times of success through sport, especially junior hockey, I have developed a personal coaching philosophy that I believe can be successful throughout life, not just in sport. This philosophy, which would be implemented at the start of every season, is called “Why Not Us”. It is a very simple, yet dynamic philosophy that consists of eight key terms that I believe are essential to success.

Previous research examined the potential relationship between social comparison, envy, and depression. Appel, Crusius, and Gerlach (2015) utilized a sample of about 130 participants that were divided into two experimental groups of depressed and non-depressed to analyze profiles that were on Facebook. The researchers found that high levels of envy, when the social comparison level is high, could result in depressive symptoms. In the case of Facebook, there is a concept called Facebook Envy. Envy that comes out of gathering information about others on Facebook (Chou & Edge, 2012). Tandoc, Ferrucci, and Duffy (2015) report that Facebook envy has some influence on depression. A person that uses Facebook more may experience higher levels of envy

Social Cognition refers to how people process, store and apply information about other people and social situations The film Take the Lead portrays many aspects and concepts of studied in social cognition. Impression formation refers to the process from which we form an overall impression of someone, from either verbal (from what people say) or nonverbal (how people look and act) communication. This concept is seen when Pierre tells Principal Augustine that he did not go to the police to file a report, leading to Principal Augustine forming the impression that Pierre is incompetent based of what he tells her (verbal communication). Impression management refers to how a person aim to influence how others perceive them. Bot nonverbal communication

Person perception is influenced by many social and cognitive biases that shape our impression of others. Social cognition is how people gather information, process it, and apply it in their social situations.The cognitive process plays a significant role in shaping many of our social interactions. This is evident when we hear the case of Tony. Tony was able to convince people he was insane much easier than he could convince them he was not.

In the process of emphasizing the centrality of avoiding embarrassment as a guide for social interaction, Goffman dismisses the analysis of emotion and feelings involved at an internal level. A fact touched on by author Arlie Hochschild(1979), who uses an interactionist perspective to explain that focusing on external impressions, such as body demeanor and appearances takes away from inner reactions at a deeper level. Here direct management of feelings challenges the concept of acting. Therefore, while we do ultimately react in accordance to our roles and do so with poise, how we manage to control the self to do this is followed by our feelings, which is an internal reaction. Hochschild’s(1983),work in The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling discusses what she considers is key in understanding social interaction and impression management. Taking from Konstantin Stanislavski 's concept of 'method acting ', Hochschild forms the concept of 'deep acting '. She illustrates the concept of impression management through 'deep acting’ that is different from Goffman 's notion of acting. In deep acting, the individual can manage their impression on others by managing how they feel. Here the actor has transpired into the character to a level where they are no longer acting but reacting to their surroundings. In deep acting, the individual relies on their demeanor to act a certain way in a given situation. She explains this process as relying on past experiences and our

Depression is another psychological toll that has been placed on young adults as an outcome of social media use. In fact “over a third (34%) of young people have felt depressed because of something they have seen on a social network site” [6]. Young people experience depression while looking at their peers’ social media profiles because of “the link between social networking and depression [which] is called the ‘social comparison’ theory” [5]. The social comparison theory asserts that individuals evaluate themselves by comparing themselves to their peers, using their peers as a benchmark to evaluate their own self worth [1]. These comparisons can be misleading when young adults look at their peers’ social networking profiles. One person may have 50 Facebook friends whom they personally know while their peer may have over 1,000 Facebook friends whom they randomly accept and request. When using the social comparison theory the peer with