Recently, as I searched for some long term evidence of the benefits of parent - infant co-sleeping, I came across a study of college age subjects which found that males who had co-slept with their parents between birth and five years not only had
significantly higher self esteem, they experienced less guilt and anxiety and reported greater frequency of sex.
Not exact matches
Those given surgery did see a
significantly higher impact of weight loss on their quality of life, and greater improvement in the domains of physical functioning,
self -
esteem, and work performance.
And the study, which is believed to be the first of its kind, has revealed people who are in touch with nature use their phone half as much each day, have
significantly higher self -
esteem, are
significantly more conscientious, emotionally stable and open to new experiences.
Students enrolled in WINGS for kids after school program have
significantly higher math & reading scores, better grades, improved school attendance, and reported
higher self -
esteem and less anxiety than non-WINGS students.
High school students exposed to a relaxation response - based curriculum had
significantly increased their
self -
esteem.
For those with
high global EDE scores, however, patients with low
self -
esteem (37 %) did
significantly worse than those with
high self -
esteem (67 %).
Recently, several studies have shown that subjective well - being
significantly correlates with
high self -
esteem, and that
self -
esteem shares significant variance in both mental well - being and happiness (Zimmerman, 2000).
Recent studies confirm that
high self -
esteem is
significantly associated with less violence (Fleming et al., 1999; Horowitz, 1999), while a lack of
self -
esteem significantly increases the risk of violence and gang membership (Schoen, 1999).
1) Girls who receive the intervention compared with a control group of girls who do not, will show
significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, unhealthy dietary restraint, bulimic symptoms, internalisation of the thin ideal, body comparison, appearance conversations, expectancies of thinness, and
higher media literacy and
self -
esteem;
Compared to male students, the females not only reported
significantly more stress symptoms, lower global
self -
esteem, and
higher performance - based
self -
esteem, but also reported perceiving
higher demands and having more difficulties sleeping.
Other results show that children with involved, loving fathers are
significantly more likely to do well in school, have healthy
self -
esteem, exhibit empathy and pro-social behavior, and avoid
high - risk behaviors including drug use, truancy, and criminal activity.
Children with involved, loving fathers are
significantly more likely to do well in school, have healthy
self -
esteem, exhibit empathy and pro-social behavior, and avoid
high - risk behaviors including drug use, truancy, and criminal activity.
Boys living with their mothers scored
significantly higher in scholastic, athletic and physical domains... There were no differences in performance of the four groups in the social and behavioural domains, or in
self -
esteem.