Question

Larsen and Buss review work on sex differences in self-esteem. Identify two articles published in the past five years that address sex differences or similarities in self-esteem. Select articles that are not cited or discussed by Larsen and Buss. For each article, summarize what the researchers investigated, how they investigated it, and what they found. Discuss whether the results of these two articles are consistent with the results of research presented by Larsen and Buss.

Answer 1

The two article on sex difference or similarities in self esteem published during las five years are :

1. Gender Differences in respect of self esteem and body images as well as response to adolescent’s school based prevention programme by Reut Agam, Snait Tami and Moria Golan, 2015

Summary: The above article reviews the impact of Gender Roles on Adolescent’s self esteem. As put forwarded by the authors, self esteem is a large part of Adolescent’s self understanding and it is dynamic in nature and susceptible to internal and external influences during adolescence. Gender Role influences adolescent’s self esteem. While self confidence is stereotypical male feature, Displaying of Self-confidence on the other hand by Girls is considered to be a breach of traditional gender roles. Therefore, it is obvious that boys report higher self confidence rather than Girls.