It is well documented that low self-esteem has a serious impact on health and well-being across all age groups and settings - in schools, at home and in the workplace. But what is self-esteem and how does it affect us? Chapter one provides an overview of the issues. Chapter two looks at self-esteem and body image. Chapter three provides a variety of views and advice on how to improve self-esteem.
The information comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and surveys and literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Self-Esteem – The Facts
Self-esteem, Background to self-esteem and how it can evolve, What is low self-esteem?, Is high self-esteem a bad thing?, Mistaken ways of thinking, Top ten facts about low self-esteem, Self-esteem questionnaire.
Chapter Two: Self-Esteem and Body Image
Body image and self-esteem, Body image, The Dove Self-Esteem Fund, How can we learn to love our bodies?, Female body image timeline, Eating disorders, body image and the media, Do you have body angst?, We hate our bodies, Celebrities distort girls’ search for ideal shape, Plastic fantastic, ‘My daughter wants surgery . . . she is 13’, Boys and body image, Over 22,000 surgical procedures in 2005, Children’s body image, Little miss perfect, Ethnicity and body image, Healthy self-esteem.
Chapter Three: Raising Self-Esteem
How to increase your self-esteem, Kick the habit of self-criticism, 7 ways to boost your self-esteem quickly, Ten ways to boost your self-esteem, Nature has ways of making us feel better, Building self-esteem.
Key Facts
Additional Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
• The word ‘esteem’ comes from a Latin word which means ‘to estimate’. So, self-esteem is how you estimate yourself. (page 1)
• Bullies and many criminals are much more likely to suffer from unrealistically high self-esteem and impulse control problems than low self-esteem. (page 7)
• The overexposure to the media directs young people to examine their bodies and even measure their physical appearance against unrealistic computer-enhanced images. (page 10)
• Women who are asked to point to pictures that most closely resemble the shape and size of their body routinely pick women who are larger than themselves. (page 14)
• Just 8% of teenage girls in Britain deem themselves to be happy with their body, according to a body image survey commissioned by a teen magazine. A further 68% believe their faces to be unattractive, and their lives are preoccupied by the desire to acquire a ‘perfect’ celebrity body. (page 20)
• Six out of ten Brits (57 per cent) believe that plastic surgery is the key to true happiness. (page 21)
• A survey of 2,000 teenage boys, whose average age was 15, found that they are as self-conscious about their bodies as girls, with 62 per cent not liking their faces and 68 per cent not liking their teeth. (page 23)
• Almost half (46.9 per cent) of 81 five- to eight-year-olds surveyed wanted to be thinner, and 45.7 per cent said they would go on a diet if they gained weight. (page 25)
• By the time they reach adulthood, 95 per cent of women are dissatisfied with their bodies and seven out of 10 girls have been on a diet. (page 25)
Self-Esteem and Body Image Study Guide
Each book in the Issues series has a study guide. These four-page guides provide a variety of discussion points and other activities to suit a wide range of ability levels and interests.
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Price: £1.50
ISBN: 978 1 86168 368 7
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