The mental health of young people in Ireland continues to be an issue of huge concern and we know from research that smartphones, online activity and, in particular, social media use are huge ...

Scientists suspect that the key to developing self-esteem is starting early when children are young and their brains are still developing. This is part of the reason why low self-esteem seems to ...

So, the burning question becomes this: When we forgive, are we setting ourselves up for lowered self-esteem and lowered self-respect because we are being weak and letting people take advantage of us?

I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. So begins an eight-line poem by Emily Dickinson. Written in 1861 and ...

Self-esteem has been defined as a person's overall evaluation of his or her own worth (Hewitt, 2009). Low self-esteem is involved in a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including depression (Brown ...