How Deception is linked with Self-esteem among Male
Collage Students
Abstract
The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between deception and self-esteem. In nature, human beings perceive themselves as much unique as possible and have priority to control other creatures in existing environment confidently; thereby it is crucial that to emphasize one of the vital psychological term, namely self-esteem, and its relationship between deception in a broad perspective. People with high self- esteem have comfortable feelings with a broad range of emotions. On the other hand, those who have fear of being ridiculed, negative thoughts about life, and blaming behavior might also have low self-esteem. In some condition, when people realized that they are deceived, then their self-esteem might change in temporal differences. In this perspective, I postulate that deception is negatively correlated with self-esteem by using two of influential measuring techniques, namely signature size and state self-esteem scale (SSES).
Key words: Self-esteem, deception, placebo effect, individual’s feelings, state self-esteem scale (SSES), signature analysis.
How Deception is linked with Self-esteem among Male Collage Students
In nature, human beings perceive themselves as much unique as possible andhave priority to control other creatures in existing environment confidently; thereby it is crucial that to emphasize one of the vital psychological term, namely self-esteem, and its relationship to deception in a broad perspective.
Self-esteem can simply be defined as how we value ourselves and at what extent we are valuable to others. Self-esteem is labeled as "The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it" by Smith and Mackie (Smith, & Mackie, 2007). Furthermore, according to Guardia and
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