Maybe living authentically is the real key to high self-esteem.
In an 11-year study that started in 2008, nearly 1,400 German participants were asked every year about their romantic relationship status, their self-esteem, and their satisfaction with being single or their satisfaction with their romantic relationship. They were typically 16 years old at the start of the study. Although not everyone answered the questions in all 11 of the years, about 90 percent participated in at least four of the years.
Averaging across all of the participants in the study, regardless of their romantic relationship experience, their self-esteem decreased over the course of the 11 years. Generally, the participants felt less good about themselves as they aged from 16 to 26.
Those results were just correlational, so we can’t know for sure how to explain them. One possibility is that people who like being single, such as the, and people who like being in romantic relationships both enjoy greater self-esteem because they are living the life they want to live – they are living authentically.
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