2.3 Describe how gender, social comparisons, and self-fulfilling prophecies affect one’s self-esteem.

PRINCIPLE POINTS: Your assessment of your worth as a person in terms of skills, abilities, talents, and appearance constitutes your level of self-esteem. Self-esteem is affected by many factors, but primary among them are your gender, your comparisons of yourself to others, and your self-fulfilling prophecies.
PRINCIPLE TERMS:
self-esteem self-concept clarity gender social comparison self-fulfilling prophecy PRINCIPLE SKILLS: