Question

Which is the typical developmental path for self-esteem?

a. a steady increase in self-esteem from early childhood through adulthood
b. a decline in middle childhood until age 12 or 13 followed by an increase in adolescence
c. low in early childhood, high in middle childhood, low in adolescence
d. a decline in early childhood followed by an increase through adulthood?

Answer 1

b. a decline in middle childhood until age 12 or 13 followed by an increase in adolescence

Step-by-step explanation:

• The self-esteem is an individual and subjective evaluation and it includes the beliefs and the emotions such as the triumph, the despair, pride, and the shame and is self-concept that is focused on the positive and the negative evaluation of the self-esteem and is major construct as it predicts certain outcomes as the career advancements and the happiness and other things as marriage

• As after the age of 12, the child realizes the mutual perspective on larger social groups and thus it focuses on the larger social groups and thereby incres of the adolescence

Answer 2

The right answer is B. A decline in middle childhood until age 12 or 13 followed by an increase in adolescence. The self-concept is formed during the first years of life, due to the encouragement they receive to reach various developmental milestones tend to have a very high self-esteem. If the child maintains this feeling of achievement throughout childhood during adolescence his self-esteem will increase when he notices that he is developing new cognitive abilities.

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