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ARiA · 02-07-2003, 05:18 PM

Results of your Self-Esteem Test
Self-Esteem Index
Your score = 64

What does your score mean?
According to this test, you have a reasonably high level of self-esteem. There is still, however, a lot of space for improvement. You need to realize that everybody has self-doubts, and everybody fails at some point - it's just part of the human experience. Trouble begins when you take failure so seriously that you anticipate the worst from the future. It becomes a damaging self-fulfilling prophecy: you expect something bad to happen and thus act in a way that increases the chance of it really happening. The expectation of failure, lingering in the back of your mind, intrudes on your life. It influences how much effort you are willing to invest and how long you stick things out when faced with challenges. You may very well have the ability and the desire to succeed, but expecting failure can keep you from responding to difficulty with adaptive decision-making and action. Such behavior will increase the likelihood of failure, which in turn confirms what you expected in the first place! It's a vicious circle...but one you can get out of!

02-07-2003, 05:18 PM	#9
ARiA ARiA should edit this Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 256 xBucks: 13,523	Results of your Self-Esteem Test Self-Esteem Index Your score = 64 What does your score mean? According to this test, you have a reasonably high level of self-esteem. There is still, however, a lot of space for improvement. You need to realize that everybody has self-doubts, and everybody fails at some point - it's just part of the human experience. Trouble begins when you take failure so seriously that you anticipate the worst from the future. It becomes a damaging self-fulfilling prophecy: you expect something bad to happen and thus act in a way that increases the chance of it really happening. The expectation of failure, lingering in the back of your mind, intrudes on your life. It influences how much effort you are willing to invest and how long you stick things out when faced with challenges. You may very well have the ability and the desire to succeed, but expecting failure can keep you from responding to difficulty with adaptive decision-making and action. Such behavior will increase the likelihood of failure, which in turn confirms what you expected in the first place! It's a vicious circle...but one you can get out of!