Name: Lushawn Pennant

School: Annotto Bay High CAP

Subject: Career Development

Factor that influence positive self-esteem and self confidence

Self-esteem can be affected by genetics as well as environmental factors, and poor self-esteem
often begins in childhood. A person who experiences an abusive childhood or who didn't get
enough approval from authority figures, feels his or her self-worth was based on achievements or
feels excluded will often have poor self-esteem.

Self confidence is an attitude that allows people to have positive, realistic views of themselves
and situations that involve them. There are many factors that influence your ability to have
confidence in yourself. Surprisingly, lack of ability or knowledge doesnt seem to be related to a
lack of self confidence.

Factors
Home: Relationships with the members of the family affect and influence your self esteem. This is
because you copy their attitudes and reactions when you are still young. And there is great influence when
you are young because it is the stage where you learn. The family members influence the way you think
of yourself and others. You behave like what your family members act.

Positive self-image: You need to have a positive self-image. This is important to a fully developed sense
of self and gives you the ability to build confidence.
Your view to the world: Another factor is how you view the world. A positive attitude goes a long way
towards feeling confident in many situations. You also need to be able to rely on your own ideas and
beliefs rather than take on those of others.
Deal your mistakes by yourself: Another factor that comes into play when dealing with self confidence
issues is how you deal with mistakes that you make. When you were a child your parents set the tone for
how you treat mistakes as an adult.
Depression: Depression can actually stem from a lack of self confidence. When you consistently feel self
critical about what you do and things in your life it can lead to becoming depressed. Although depression
can have many roots, lacking self confidence can contribute to it.

Success: The things you achieve or the less successful experiences in your life. Through
achieving things you feel a self esteem. You feel that you can do it and have tried it. And the next
time you encounter the situation you can face it and be able to achieve what you like to attain.
Media: The media can affect the self esteem/awareness in a negative way. This negative change
is mostly seen in girls in their teens. Because they see models and sexy images. And they want to

look like them. Making them dissatisfied of their own body. When the person sees herself with
poor body image it is associated with high levels of depression and anxiety.

Parental/family influence
Role model: A role model is someone who is looked up to and revered by someone else other
individuals aspire to be like, either in the present or in the future. A role model may be someone
who you know and interact with on a regular basis, or may be someone who you've never met,
such as a celebrity. Common role models include well known actors, public figures such as
police men or political officials, teachers or other educators, and parents or other family
members.
Birth order: Birth order refers to the order a child is born in their family; first-born and second-born are
examples. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological
development.

Societal: relating to society or social relations.

Cultural influence: Aims to build and employ social, cultural, and political data-driven models
to explore and explain attitudes and behaviors. The efforts involve playing significant roles in
attitudes and behaviors, abstracting general rules from traditional research such as sociological
case studies, studying the differencing structures that allow different factors to influence
decision-making, reasoning from different points of view, and applying them in predicting
behavior.
Stereotype: a stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or
certain ways of doing things. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately
reflect reality. However, this is only a fundamental psychological definition of a stereotype.
Media influence: The media has both positive and negative influences on people. The media can
make a person more aware of what is happening on a local, national and global level, or it can
warp ones perspective of the truth. The media has the capacity to ruin society by encouraging
false ideals, praising selfishness and making the possession of fame, fortune and talent
qualifications to be considered a valuable person.
Societal expectation: The term social expectations refers to the general standards of behavior
that individuals who live within a society are expected to uphold. Good manners and common
sense are standard examples of universal social expectations, although specific social behaviors
differ from one culture to the next.

Classroom teacher expectation: teachers expectations affect students achievement, recent

classroom observations have led some researchers to conclude that expectancy effects are more
complex than previously thought. Claude Goldenberg, University of California/Los Angeles,
believes that teachers and students affect one another in more complicated and reciprocal ways
that are not easy to predict or to change. The relationship between expectancy and achievement
appears to be partly the result of students effects on teachers. Student behaviors, such as
motivation and academic focus, help shape teachers expectations. Some researchers suggest that
teachers expectations may predict students performance, not simply because their expectations
create self-falling prophecies, but because they are accurate reflections of student behaviors that
are critical for academic success.
Peer group influences: A peer group is both a social group and a primary group of people who
have similar interests (homophile), age, background, or social status. The members of this group
are likely to influence the persons beliefs and behavior. Peer groups contain hierarchies and
distinct patterns of behavior. Eighteen-year-olds are not in a peer group with 14 year olds even
though they may be in school together, just as teachers do not share students as a peer group.

Outline ways of enhancing self-esteem and self-confidence

Self-esteem

Positive self-talk

Dont compare yourself to others

Exercise

Dont strive for perfection

Dont beat yourself up when you make a mistake

Focus on the things you can change

Do things that you enjoy

Celebrate the small stuff

Be helpful and considerate

Surround yourself with supportive people

Self-confidence

Stay away from negativity and bring on the positivity

Change your body language and image

Don't accept failure and get rid of the negative voices in your head

Be prepared

For tough times, when all else fails: Create a great list

Behavioural
Behavioral is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems,
or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the
other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
Spiritual
relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

Indentify personality types and traits

Myers briggs
The 16 MBTI personality Types. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step I is based on
Carl Jung's theory of psychological type. It indicates your personality preferences in four
dimensions: Where you focus your attention Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)