How Do You Predict Self Esteem?

There's a problem with the measurement of self esteem. You're not going to move people's levels of neuroticism by trying to get them to feel good about themselves, ok? Now, having said that, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't encourage people. A psychologist named jerome kagan studied temperamentally inhibited children. He found that if you encouraged them in the world, you could shift them into a more stable personality configuration. And what you base ly did was, when they were manifesting signs of distress, instead of encouraging them to withdraw and retreat, you encourage them to go out and explore. So it isn't how you feel about yourself, right? It's how you