Researches of Self-Esteem as an Element of Professional Formaton of Personality

Abstract

Self-esteem is one of the concepts of individual psychology, which has the largest research base and different interpretations. For example, according to L. S. Vygotsky, self-esteem is a generalized, stable, differentiated (also can be said ranked) attitude of the individual to his social “Me”. I.S. Kon considered self-esteem as a multicomponent and complex phenomenon. His domestic colleagues V. A. Semichenko, M. G. Yaroshevsky expanded the interpretation of the concept in this direction. Therefore, in their opinion, self-esteem is an assessment of his own place among other people and their subjective attitude to it. This description also complements with the statement of I. I. Chesnolova that self-esteem is special psychological formation of self-consciousness of the individual and acts as an internal mechanism of self-regulation of behavior and activity.