We distinguished the high, low self-esteem by questionnaires, and divide the individuals with high self-esteem into defensive high self-esteem and genuine high self-esteem.

To investigate the influence of positive and negative emotion on the memory of people who have high or low self-esteem, we have done two successful experiments.

There appears to be two forms of high self-esteem: secure high self-esteem( which is often linked with psychological health)and fragile high self-esteem( which is generally associated with poor psychological adjustment and impaired interpersonal relationships).

There appears to be two forms of high self-esteem: secure high self-esteem( which is often linked with psychological health)and fragile high self-esteem( which is generally associated with poor psychological adjustment and impaired interpersonal relationships).

Many researchers demonstrated the possibility of existence of heterogeneity of high self-esteem from the perspective of inconsistent results of empirical studies,theoretical thinking of self-esteem concept or measuring method respectively and proposed the different categories of high self-esteem(HSE)and their measuring methods from different aspects respectively,such as unstable HSE vs.

Traditional view proposed that people with high self-esteem had better psychological and social adaption, but more and more researchers believed this dichotomy of self-esteem too simple because of differences in nature in each level of self-esteem especially in high self-esteem, namely heterogeneity of high self-esteem.