Subject: 
             [evol-psych] The Trouble With Self-Esteem
        Date: 
             Sun, 3 Feb 2002 10:31:29 -0000
       From: 
             "Ian Pitchford" 
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             http://human-nature.com/
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New York Times
February 3, 2002

The Trouble With Self-Esteem
By LAUREN SLATER

Take this test:
1. On the whole I am satisfied with myself.
2. At times I think that I am no good at all.
3. I feel that I have a number of good qualities.
4. I am able to do things as well as most other people.
5. I feel I do not have much to be proud of.
6. I certainly feel useless at times.
7. I feel that I am a person of worth, at least the equal of others.
8. I wish I could have more respect for myself.
9. All in all, I am inclined to feel that I am a failure.
10. I take a positive attitude toward myself.

Devised by the sociologist Morris Rosenberg, this questionnaire is one of the
most widely used self-esteem assessment scales in the United States. If your
answers demonstrate solid self-regard, the wisdom of the social sciences
predicts that you are well adjusted, clean and sober, basically lucid, without
criminal record and with some kind of college cum laude under your high-end
belt. If your answers, on the other hand, reveal some inner shame, then it is
obvious: you were, or are, a teenage mother; you are prone to social deviance;
and if you don't drink, it is because the illicit drugs are bountiful and
robust.

Full text
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/magazine/03ESTEEM.html