Self-esteem and self-compassion

An interesting experiment and study of the interconnections between self-esteem and self-compassion in teenagers showed us some interesting results.

Boy versus girls, in middle school - no difference noted
Boy, middle school versus boy, high school - no difference noted
Girl, middle school versus girl, high school - the later group will feel worse, more stressed out and prone to depression.

After the initial measurements, one test group was instructed in using Mindful Self-compassion techniques. After one year, self-esteem and self-compassion was measured again. Those with high self-esteem has no notable changes, irrelevant of the self-compassion level. Those with low self-esteem, and here came the surprise, has no notable improvements if they had low self-compassion, but high self-compassion seems to protect against the harmful effects of the low self-esteem.

This is a very important observation, making self-compassion a skill desired by all the introverts, teenagers or not.

Prepare to be amazed - what you don't know about yourself

Crash course about implicit associations
A tacit assumption or implicit assumption is an assumption that includes the underlying agreements or statements made in the development of a logical argument, course of action, decision, or judgment that are not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker or judge.

Do you want to find out your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other topics? Or even more, about your implicit associations about self-esteem, anxiety, alcohol, and other topics?

Go here.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/