emotions and self esteem (chap 6)

what is emotion regulation

Controlling/managing our emptions so that they dont get in the way of a productive life  

Externalizing tendencies:

personality style that involves acting on our immedicate impulses and behaving disrupitevly and aggressively 

Intternalizinig tendencies:

personality style where childern are self-concious, timid, frightended in social situations

what is self esteem

the tendency to feel good or bad about ourselves- first becomes major issue in elementary school  

What are the five areas that children draw from to create their self-esteem? 

1. Scholastic competence (academic talents) 

2. Behavioral conduct (obedience or being “good”) 

3. Athletic skills (preformance at sports) 

4. Peer likeability (popularity) 

5. Physical appearance (looks) 

How is self-esteem distorted within children who have externalizing tendencies?

these childern deny reality and blame others to preserve their unrealistically high feelings of self-worth 

How is self-esteem distorted within children who have internalizing tendencies?

they take failures personsonally (ex- my teacher didnt give me a highfive today, so she hates me). They are at risk of developing learned helplessness (they give up without even trying) 

How do both externalizing and internalizing tendencies face a similar danger of ensuring they will probably fail?

Externalizing people arent able to see what they need to do to help themselves succeed,

internalzing people assume they’re not competent enough and cut off the chance of success.  

What is self-efficacy? How is this related to self-esteem? 

Self-efficacy is related self-esteem because the more childern can prove to themselves that they can do things (expecially new or hard things), the higher their self-esteem gets.