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. 

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

Dimensions of Self-Esteem

Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (1995). Implicit social cognition: attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes. Psychological review, 102(1), 4.

Implicit Social Cognition (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995)

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

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.

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