When you feel that you can do something, this mean that you have self-confidence. Now does that mean that you have a high self-esteem too. What is the difference, and what are the similarities?
In psychology we refer to the belief that you can do a particular task as "self efficacy" (for that particular task). It's an important variable, one that goes a long way towards predicting one's persistence in trying to achieve the task. Albert Bandura is the champion of self efficacy – google on his name and that term and you'll get more reading than you could ask for.
Self confidence is a more general sense of one's abilities, not directed at any single task.
Self esteem refers to one's opinion of one's self. It's a terribly oversold notion, and in reality is simply not all that important. It's certainly silly to think that it's important to "promote a child's self esteem", and in fact we'd all be better off if people would just stop thinking about self esteem and get on with actually becoming able to do things.
#1 by Ruzzo on June 10th, 2009
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Self-confidence means a person's trust in himself for his abilities and capabilities and other good characteristics.
Self-esteem, on the other hand, refers to how a person rates and sees himself in relation to the society where he is a part.
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#2 by Kimberly on June 10th, 2009
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Hi..
Essentially self-confidence, is what you think of your abilities (what you can do) and self-esteem is what you think of yourself as a person (who you are)…. You can be very high in one and not the other, you can be high in both, or you can be low in both…. It all depends on what you were taught, what you learned to believe, as you were growing up….
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We can improve, our levels of self-confidence and self-esteem… Since each of those levels, is based on what we learned, we can re-learn what we think of ourselves and our abilities….. ;D
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Thanks, for the question!
My regards!
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#3 by shilohforrest on June 10th, 2009
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self confidence is knowing you can do a certain thing. self esteem is knowing you can do that thing well and feel good about it. many people have self confidence but, no self esteem. a singer can know they have a good voice , they know they can sing but you'll never hear that singer if they don't have confidence because they'll refuse to let others hear them. it's important to have both or you won't get much accomplished in this life.
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#4 by Paul S on June 10th, 2009
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In psychology we refer to the belief that you can do a particular task as "self efficacy" (for that particular task). It's an important variable, one that goes a long way towards predicting one's persistence in trying to achieve the task. Albert Bandura is the champion of self efficacy – google on his name and that term and you'll get more reading than you could ask for.
Self confidence is a more general sense of one's abilities, not directed at any single task.
Self esteem refers to one's opinion of one's self. It's a terribly oversold notion, and in reality is simply not all that important. It's certainly silly to think that it's important to "promote a child's self esteem", and in fact we'd all be better off if people would just stop thinking about self esteem and get on with actually becoming able to do things.
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#5 by Cynanon on June 10th, 2009
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Self-esteem is internal feelings, and self-confidence is the outward expression of those feelings. For instance, you may know that you are really smart. Internally, you process this fact and gain self-esteem in the area of knowledge.
Then you go to take a verbal exam. All the sudden, you feel nervous and start to sweat. You begin to doubt that you will pass the test. You still know you are smart, but you doubt your ability to communicate that to others — therefore you lack self-confidence.
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#6 by marisha z on June 10th, 2009
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i think self-esteem is how you think about yourself and self-confidence is how you feel about it. or that could be backwards.
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#7 by mochi.girl on June 10th, 2009
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self confidence is believing in your abilities
self esteem is believing that you are good enough as you are and that you dont need to use others to prove that you have value
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