Self-Esteem and Impression Management

Self-Esteem and Impression Management
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Self-Esteem and Impression Management
Self-esteem is the opinion people have of themselves. When a person has healthy self-esteem, they tend to feel optimistic about life in general and themselves and can deal with challenges in life. On the other hand, low self-esteem drives people to have a negative perspective of self and life and are less able to deal with inevitable challenges in life. Self-esteem is closely related to impression in the sense that people are always trying to be impressive to boost their self-esteem and the perception of others about them. Therefore, an impression is an idea, opinion, or feeling about someone (or something) formed often without conscious thought. Therefore, self-esteem and impression management are important skills for people seeking to live a healthy and fulfilling life, including success and growth within the working environment (Vijayabanu et al., 2019). In this regard, the current paper aims to discuss four personal examples illustrating self-esteem and impression management, social tuning, social comparison, and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation based on influence by teachers, friends, parents, community, and culture.
A Visit to the Doctor
In childhood, I feared needles, which made my visits to the clinic terrible experiences. My parents and the house help who took care of me would use this as a motivation tool whenever I was being stubborn. My mother would say, "finish that food, or I am calling Dr. Owens." I harbored this reinforced feeling into young adulthood when I independently visited the doctor for the first time as an adult. I did not anticipate that an injection would be part of the procedure. The female doctor made it worse by suggesting that she would call nurses to hold me down because I was making too many movements before the injection. I left the health facility dejected and demoralized, not because of the doctor or the procedure, but because the injection was not as painful as I had envisioned. If anything, I had undergone far, much worse pain before that the injection could not compare. This low self-esteem was also exacerbated by the impression I had left in the doctor's perception of me, whom I knew would be seeing me again after one week. This caused me to skip the next visit. In some way, however, this incident acted as my exit from the fear of injections. In subsequent visits to a different doctor, I never flinched while receiving an injection, and the anxiety I used to have before an injection vanished.
Becoming a Manchester United Fan
Social tuning is the process whereby people adopt the attitudes of other people. Psychologists argue that social tuning demonstrates a refreshing lack of people's conscious control over their actions. Growing up, I love watching rugby, American football, and NBA. I picked these games because they were watched at home throughout the weekend growing up. However, being an international student in high school, I was surrounded by people whose' cultural sports perspective was football (soccer). In my early days, I felt isolated because I under...