Low self-esteem and depression are strongly related, but there is not yet consistent
evidence on the nature of the relation. Whereas the vulnerability model states that low self …

There has been little empirical evidence examining the overlap in nomothetic span for self-
report measures and construct representation for behavioral lab tasks in most psychological …

Individual differences researchers very commonly report Pearson correlations between their
variables of interest. Cohen (1988) provided guidelines for the purposes of interpreting the …

Having insight into one's abilities is essential, yet it remains unclear whether people
generally perceive their skills accurately or inaccurately. In the present analysis, we …

The chapter presents an overview of the attitude literature, focusing on the contributions that
were offered between 1995 and 2010. These analyses have been conducted almost entirely …

Gaining insight into the nature and consequences of people's global self-evaluations (ie,
their self-esteem) has been fraught with difficulty. Nearly 2 decades ago, researchers …

Previous research with adolescents has demonstrated that global self-esteem is related to
various types of psychopathology including depression, anxiety and eating problems. In the …

Self-knowledge has never been a central topic; in empirical psychology. There are pockets
of research on self-knowledge in different subdisciplines of the field, but until now there has …

Self-esteem is one of the most widely studied and oldest constructs in scientific psychology.
Accordingly, a number of measures have been used over the past century. Despite the wide …

Shame has been described as a central emotion in narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
However, there is a dearth of empirical data on shame in NPD. Patients with NPD (N= 28) …