those with higher self-esteem tend to perform better in their academics due to a higher self-confidence  and efficacy in their academic abilities 

impact of self-esteem on academic performance

those who are low achieving still have high levels of self-esteem due to their increased peer connections and developing other mechanisms to maintain their self-esteem other than school performance. 

low achievement level students and self-esteem

y axis: self-esteem level
x axis: grade level

those in 7th grade tend to have larger discrepancies in the self-esteem levels between those who are high achievers and low achievers.However once students enter 9th grade, the levels of self-esteem in low and high achievers tend to converge. 

grade level discrepancies between achievement levels and self esteem

there seems to not be a significant discrepancy between those who are high achievers and those who are not. This is due to low achievers tending to devote their attention to things that boost their self-esteem (i.e. sports, hanging with peers) rather than school which threatens their self-esteem.

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Parents

Peers

Teachers

Age

Physical appearance

Gender

Academic achievement

Sources of self-esteem

Praise is able to increase a person's self-esteem and can encourage people to work hard on their tasks. Praise can be in the form of approval or awards.

Effect of praise on self-esteem

Peer victimization is when a student is bullied or aggressed constantly for a period of time by their peers. It varies from student to student on how frequent and when they are victimized. Being victimized by peers has lasting effects for students academically, psychologically, and socially.

Peer Victimization 

parental support and a child's self esteem tends to be both positively correlated reciprocal in that parents effect self esteem as well as self esteem affecting the level parental support reported.

parents and self-esteem

peers tend to boost a person's self-esteem due to the accepting environment they provide that may not be otherwise present in other parts of the student's life.

peers and self-esteem

achievement levels and self-esteem 

self esteem tends to increase from childhood into young adulthood, taking a slight decrease during young adolescent years (13-18). Once a person reaches 30 years old, self-esteem tends to stabilize and remains the same for the rest of their lives. Genders also differ on the times when their self-esteem increases and decreases during their adolescent years.

age and self esteem

overall, males tend to have higher self esteem than females, especially throughout young adulthood, however the difference is not very large. 

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