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7) Unlikely to feel a need to put others down.

8) Open and assertive in communicating, for instance their

needs.

9) Self-reliant and resourceful without refusing help.

10) Able to laugh at themselves, not taking themselves too

seriously (Mruk,2006: 86).
3. The Aspects of Self-Esteem

a. General Self-Esteem

According to Branden (1994: 4) self-esteem, fully realized,

is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the

requirements of life. More specifically, self-esteem is:

1. Confidence in our ability to think, confidence in our

ability to cope with the basic challenges of life; and

2. Confidence in our right to be successful and happy, the

feeling of being worthy, deserving, entitled to assert our

needs and wants, achieve our values and enjoy the fruits

of our efforts.

He added that the more solid our self-esteem, the better

equipped we are to cope with troubles that arise in our personal

lives or in our careers; the quicker we are to pick ourselves up

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