What is the self?

By Robert Hanna. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2011

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Intrapersonal Resilience Moderates the Association Between Exposure-Severity and PTSD Symptoms Among Civilians Exposed to the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict (2015, background): “Self-esteem refers to the evaluative aspect of self-knowledge that reflects the extent to which people like themselves and believe that they are competent (e.g., Brown, 1998; Tafarodi & Swann, 1995).”
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