Explicit self-esteem refers to self-aware and self-reportable summative affective evaluations of oneself, which entail conscious, reflective, and deliberative mental processes.  

Explicit Self-Esteem

Explicit self-esteem refers to self-aware and self-reportable summative affective evaluations of oneself, which entails conscious, reflective, and deliberative mental processes.  

Implicit self-esteem refers to the automatic, nonverbal, unconscious, and introspectively unidentified affective judgments, evaluations, or opinions one has towards oneself and self-associated stimuli. 

Implicit Self-Esteem

Global self-esteem refers to an overall evaluation of self-liking.

Global Self-Esteem 

Specific self-esteem captures the extent of one's self-liking or personal valuation within distinct aspects of the self or specific life domains.

Specific Self-Esteem/ Domain-Specific Self-Esteem

1. implicit vs. explicit
2. stable vs. unstable 
3. collective vs. agentic
4. global vs. specific

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A person's overall subjective evaluation on their worth, and how they feel about the evaluation. Those with high self esteem tend to feel hopeful, and those with low self esteem tend to feel hopeless and withdraw. Typically either a positive or negative evaluation of traits, abilities, etc.

Self-Esteem

Bosson, J. K., Lakey, C. E., Campbell, W. K., Zeigler‐Hill, V., Jordan, C. H., & Kernis, M. H. (2008). Untangling the links between narcissism and self‐esteem: A theoretical and empirical review. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(3), 1415-1439.

Untangling the links between narcissism and self‐esteem (Bosson et al., 2008)

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