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SELF ESTEEM NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
ANDREW LAM, NEW AMERICA MEDIA - In a classic 1992 study, psychologists
Harold Stevenson and James Stigler compared academic skills of
elementary school students in Taiwan, China, Japan and the United
States. It showed a yawning gap in self-perception between East and
West. Asian students outperformed their American counterparts, but when
they were asked to evaluate their performances, American students
evaluated themselves significantly higher than those from Asia. "In
other words, they combined a lousy performance with a high sense of
self-esteem," noted Nina H. Shokraii, author of "School Choice 2000:
What's Happening in the States", in an essay called "The Self Esteem
Fraud."
Since the 80s, self-esteem has become a movement widely practiced in
public schools, based on the belief that academic achievements come with
higher self-confidence. Shokraii disputes that self-esteem is necessary
for academic success. "For all of its current popularity, however,
self-esteem theory threatens to deny children the tools they will need
in order to experience true success in school and as adults," writes
Shokraii.
A quarter of a century later, a comprehensive new study released last
February from San Diego State University maintains that too much
self-regard has resulted in college campuses full of narcissists. In
2006, researchers said, two-thirds of the students had above-average
scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory evaluation, 30 percent
more than when the test was first administered in 1982.
Researchers like San Diego State University Professor Jean Twenge
worried that narcissists "are more likely to have romantic relationships
that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and
to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent
behaviors." The author of "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans
Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever
Before," Twenge blamed the self-esteem movement for the rise of the
"Myspace" generation.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_
id=96855813a910dda0453a6675c0d934f6
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SELF ESTEEM NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
ANDREW LAM, NEW AMERICA MEDIA - In a classic 1992 study, psychologists
Harold Stevenson and James Stigler compared academic skills of
elementary school students in Taiwan, China, Japan and the United
States. It showed a yawning gap in self-perception between East and
West. Asian students outperformed their American counterparts, but when
they were asked to evaluate their performances, American students
evaluated themselves significantly higher than those from Asia. "In
other words, they combined a lousy performance with a high sense of
self-esteem," noted Nina H. Shokraii, author of "School Choice 2000:
What's Happening in the States", in an essay called "The Self Esteem
Fraud."
Since the 80s, self-esteem has become a movement widely practiced in
public schools, based on the belief that academic achievements come with
higher self-confidence. Shokraii disputes that self-esteem is necessary
for academic success. "For all of its current popularity, however,
self-esteem theory threatens to deny children the tools they will need
in order to experience true success in school and as adults," writes
Shokraii.
A quarter of a century later, a comprehensive new study released last
February from San Diego State University maintains that too much
self-regard has resulted in college campuses full of narcissists. In
2006, researchers said, two-thirds of the students had above-average
scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory evaluation, 30 percent
more than when the test was first administered in 1982.
Researchers like San Diego State University Professor Jean Twenge
worried that narcissists "are more likely to have romantic relationships
that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and
to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent
behaviors." The author of "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans
Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever
Before," Twenge blamed the self-esteem movement for the rise of the
"Myspace" generation.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_
id=96855813a910dda0453a6675c0d934f6
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