ArticleJournal of health psychology2008
How do you feel? Self-esteem predicts affect, stress, social interaction, and symptom severity during daily life in patients with chronic illness.
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- Psychiatric and Psychological Implications of Congenital Heart Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The Association Between Spirituality, Self-Esteem, Anxiety and Depression: A Comparative Exploratory Study Between People with a Spinal Cord Injury and Healthy Subjects in Greece.Journal of religion and health · 2024Article
- Relationship between self-esteem and quality of life in middle-aged and older patients with chronic diseases: mediating effects of death anxiety.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Love beyond gluten: self-esteem, illness identity, and social support in romantic rejection concerns among adolescents with celiac disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Engaging patients in the management of orthostatic intolerance.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2023Review
- Neuroticism and Stress in Older Adults: The Buffering Role of Self-Esteem.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Love Addiction, Adult Attachment Patterns and Self-Esteem: Testing for Mediation Using Path Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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- Sport and self-esteem in people living with HIV: a cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Observational
- African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Depression: Which Biopsychosocial Factors Should Social Workers Focus On? Results from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL).Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- Stress of university students before and after campus closure in response to COVID-19.Journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- Understanding the impact of exposure to adverse socioeconomic conditions on chronic stress from a complexity science perspective.BMC medicine · 2021Article
- Type D personality and acceptance of illness in people with inflammatory bowel diseases. Mediating role of self-esteem.Current issues in personality psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Self-esteem has been demonstrated to predict health and well-being in a number of samples and domains using retrospective reports, but little is known about the effect of self-esteem in daily life. A community sample with asthma (n = 97) or rheumatoid arthritis (n = 31) completed a self-esteem measure and collected Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data 5x/day for one week using a palmtop computer. Low self-esteem predicted more negative affect, less positive affect, greater stress severity, and greater symptom severity in daily life. Naturalistic exploration of mechanisms relating self-esteem to physiological and/or psychological components in illness may clarify causal relationships and inform theoretical models of self-care, well-being, and disease management.
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