Term "Self-esteem" It is used not only in psychology, it is also important in everyday life.
Someone thinks he is the master of life and at every corner tries to teach others how to live, and someone is constantly shy and afraid, although he has no less knowledge and no worse qualities.
Why is this happening? Assess yourself correctly, understand what is wrong with you, make competent conclusions and start working on yourself - All this helps to make the method of self-esteem and the level of claims of Dembo Rubinstein.
It is with an adequate self-esteem that a person adapts as much as possible in society, makes a career, achieves high results in his field, has many friends and friends. Now more.
What it is?
Correctly evaluate yourself always hard.
Someone feels mature and intelligent, and someone is always dissatisfied with himself, therefore, he feels insecure and filled with a huge number of complexes.
To give an objective description of yourself The method of Tamara Dembo, a native of Russia who emigrated to Germany, was developed.
Our compatriot, the Soviet psychologist Susanna Rubinstein, complemented it.
The technique is simple - the test subject is offered 4 drawn scales that meet criteria such as:
- mind;
- health,
- happiness;
- character
Each scale - 100 mm, where each millimeter - definite score. In the middle of each line is a point. A person on these vertical lines marks with different icons (dash, circle, cross):
- What is he today?
- What would you like to be ideally?
- What will be if he starts to analyze and work on himself, a satisfactory level for himself?
Then, by the designated signs (dash, circle and cross), the characteristic of each person’s self-assessment is given - depending on where one person or another sign is placed.
The diagram will show how different "I am real" from "I am perfect."
All marks below the average indicate low criteria of an indicator, higher - high and inflated.
Features of the modification A. M. Prikhozhan
The author of the method Parishioners only added several scales and increased the number of lines to 7. A. M. Prikhozhan considered that it was not enough for an objective picture of 4 characteristics and introduced estimates:
- appearance;
- ability to do something with their own hands;
- peer recognition.
She also considered it necessary to change, in her opinion, the abstract concept of “happiness” to self-confidence.
Testing by this method is the same - a person marks three different levels with icons. Those icons that are below the middle - negative area, above - positive.
A. M. Parishioners in their scheme and marked the upper and lower levels. For example, under the scale of the mind is the phrase - a stupid person, above the scale - an intelligent person.
This technique most popular in modern psychology, as it allows you to open a person from different sides. The analysis of this test is the most profound and diverse.
Description of the method of Dembo-Rubinstein.
Application area
The techniques of Dembo-Rubinstein and A. M. Prikhozhan are actively used as for individual testing, and for group:
- In educational institutions.
- In the office of a psychologist.
- With vocational guidance or professional retraining.
- To determine the qualities of the employee when taking to work.
- When studying yourself and introspection.
- If you want a person to change something in your life.
Reasons to resort to these methods in fact - a great many. After all know yourself - it is correct to calculate your strengths, abilities and skills when you are in a society:
Learn at school or high school.- You work in any team.
- Attend sections and circles.
- Meet with friends and acquaintances.
Learn at school or high school.The technique will help to overestimate yourself and, perhaps, adjust your attitude to yourself. And this will directly affect the behavior and attitudes towards people around them.
Learning to adequately evaluate yourself is not easy, so when testing, you need to resort to the help of a professional psychologist.
How is the research done?
A person or group of people are issued sheets with scales and designations of either 4 or 7 criteria. Within 10-12 minutes, it is proposed to put certain icons on three levels:
- I - today - put a dash;
- I am perfect - we put a zero;
- I - enough - put a cross.
Then measured segments between these parameterswhich will tell you about your self-esteem and what you need to do to change it. The longer the segment, the lower the self-esteem.
Method of Dembo-Rubinstein: a form of answers.
How are the results analyzed?
How is the diagnosis?
The longer the segment from the mark "I am today" to the mark "perfect" - the lower the self-esteem.
If the segment is minimal or in general these two marks coincide, then overestimation of yourself - on the face.
The segments are calculated in millimeters, each millimeter is a point. If the segment is from 50 mm to 75 mm, then you have an average adequate self-esteem, more than 75 mm is underestimated, less than 50 is overestimated.
Adequate self-esteem proves that a person does not exaggerate or downplay his merits and abilities. He is objective to himself.
Overvalued talks about excessive internal illusions in relation to yourself. You are not as good as your inner perception. It is worth getting rid of the inner “star”, which, as a rule, gives rise to disregard for the rest.
Low self-esteem prevents a person from developing, communicating, making a career, and finding new friends. He is constantly not confident in himself, and this pushes people away from him.
To such people there is a global work on yourself on the eradication of complexes and self-esteem. It is hardly possible to do without the help of professional psychologists.
Also characteristic is the level of optimism of the person being tested. It will be formed between the difference of the segments from the cross to the toe and from the cross to the dash, that is, from human sufficiency, to the levels of today's perception of oneself and the ideal.
The greater the difference between the segments, the more optimistic people.
If your ideal perception is on the top scale, then it is unlikely that you thought much before putting it.
Be perfect - This is from the realm of fantasy.
If you see that on different scales are fundamentally different indicators, then this can speak about your excessive emotionality, imbalance.
The method of Dembo-Rubinstein, modification of the Parishioners. Processing and interpretation of results.
Take the test - understand who you are
Test yourself by the method to identify self-esteem Dembo-Rubinstein not difficult. And the effect of the test result is huge. You will see yourself as if from the outside and start to improve.
Remember that incorrect self-esteem can be very harmful in the future.
Still Socrates said that "I know that I know nothing" - was this a low self-esteem or an indicator of the mind? After all, the smarter a person is, the more unaware he feels. A clear answer to this question would be given by the method of Dembo-Rubinstein. Sorry, Socrates lived long before her appearance.
Once again about the method of self-assessment by Dembo-Rubinstein:
