Team D Polly Peryer
NUR/443
December 17, 2011
Nancy Ballard
The quantitative article addressed the idea that self esteem can affect the overall health of a school-aged child. Self-esteem is essential for children to have the optimum health desired, physically, mentally, and emotionally. The article identified self esteem during childhood is necessary for the child to withstand family stress, social pressures, and temptations of deviance that is encountered at that earlier stage of life. The purpose of the study was to find what certain factors among children affect the self esteem overall. It has been found low self esteem has a correlation with decreased school performance, poor health, unproductive