Disadvantages Of Low Self Esteem

Then, low self –esteem is the main reason to influence and push individual to escaping the self (Goffman, 1959). It comes from pathological sense of insecurity and inferiority, also a person’s shortcoming or a morbid personality (Baumeister et al., 2003). Because of distorted an accurate and well understanding towards personal’s behavior and disadvantages, therefore individual choose to escaping the self and do not positively face the problem and to solve it (Aberson, Healy & Romero, 2000). The popular ways of those people who are having low self-esteem choose to escaping the self are suicide, gambling, drug or alcohol abuse, online game addition, etc (Baumeister,1997; Chung, Lee and Kwon,2011; Rockloff et al., 2011; Robinson and Reiter,2016; Wood and Griffiths,2007; Kaminer,2013; Yip et.al, 2004). According to Baumeister et al. (2003) mentioned that self-esteem has become a household word. Most teachers, parents, therapists, and others have focused efforts on boosting self-esteem, on the assumption that high self-esteem will cause many positive outcomes and benefits, however low self-esteem will cause many

There is a huge different correlation between high self esteem and low self esteem (Arndt & Goldenberg, 2002). Over the past few decades, high self-esteem has risen from an individual to a societal concern (Baumeister et al., 2003). Vasconcellos argued that raising self-esteem would help solve many of the state’s problems, including crime, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, school underachievement, and pollution (Winegar, 1990). However, Karl, Marx, Sigmund Freud noted that we did not expect all the extravagant claims of the self esteem movement to be supported (Cadinu and Rothbart,1996). Because self enhancement may involve invalid and undesirable distortions of the self concept, it is unwarranted to rush to boost everyone’s self esteem (Chemers, Watson and May,