论自尊研究的历史发展趋向

On the Tendency of the Historical Development of Self-esteem Study

詹姆斯、库利的早期研究为自尊提供了理论概念和经验背景;40-50年代的心理学家探讨了自尊对于心理健康的影响;在60-70年代,心理科学中的不同学派及其不同学科对自尊进行了深入而全面的研究。而80-90年代的研究者们则在实验研究的基础上探究了自尊的决定因素,并进一步从认知和情绪的角度拓展了自尊的研究范围,揭示了低自尊与抑郁情绪之间的内在联系,指出了自尊对于人类心理健康的重要影响作用。

The early theoretical studies made by James and Cooley provided us with the theories and backgrounds of selfesteem. In the forties to fifties, the psychologists explored the influence done to psychological health by selfesteem; in the sixties to seventies, the different schools of psychological science and some other sciences made a profound and overall study on selfesteem; but in the eighties to ninties, the researchers studied a decisive factor of selfesteem based on experimental researches and further broadened the research range of selfesteem from perspectives of cognition and emotion so as to reveal the inner relationship between low selfesteem and depression,and put forth an influential role selfesteem plays in psychological health of mankind. 