Kinesiology Health Sciences Questionnaire
Self Worth Evaluation
Your self worth is how warm and loving you feel toward yourself based on a sense of worthiness and success. A low score on the following evaluation is no reflection on you as a person, it is a reflection of how you perceive yourself. It is important to be completely honest and essential that you answer the statements according to how you actually feel or behave, rather than how you think you ‘should’ feel or behave if you are to obtain a valid starting reference.
Make a note of all the statements that you do not currently agree with.
- I am at ease with strangers and make friends easily
- I am equal to my peers
- I approach every problem and new encounter with confidence
- I take care of myself first so that I can take care of others
- I admit my mistakes and failures without feeling ashamed or less than
- I feel good looking at myself in the mirror
- I forgive myself for past transgressions
- I see myself as having many positive qualities
- I have dreams, goals and visions of what I can have, do and be in life
- I feel warm and friendly toward myself and treat myself with love and respect
- I feel OK and all right just as I am
- The image I hold of myself is predominantly of a positive and good person
- I see myself as having many likeable qualities
- I see myself as a person who accomplishes, has wins and successes
- I feel worthy enough to ask for what I want
- I see myself as lovable and capable
- I can say and choose what is best for me
- I base my decisions on satisfying my own needs in preference to pleasing others
- I hold a high opinion of myself
- I am not hurt by the opinions or attitudes of other people
- I accept things about myself just as they are (including my physical attributes) even though some things I would prefer to be different
Self Worth
A sound sense of personal self worth is a major requirement for emotional health. With it comes a life of success and without it life can seem unfulfilled and lack purpose. If you scored low on this evaluation you may consider private consultations with Lyn Treloar to assist you to move forward in life, releasing old hurts and unproductive behaviours to assist yourself in reaching your full potential.
If a person’s self image is that of being a worthwhile, useful, lovable, competent human being, he or she will be able to lead a happy and productive life and this will manifest in a feeling of success. If on the other hand if a person feels worthless, unlovable and incompetent, life will be plagued with self-doubt, self-pity and interpersonal ineffectiveness.
Just as the body requires vitamins and minerals to be healthy, the personality in the same biological and organic way requires acknowledgment from oneself, and to a lesser degree from others, to achieve emotional health. Emotional health, or the lack of it, is a major contributing factor to disease, family breakdown, learning disorders and performance.
A person with a well-developed sense of self worth does not need to depend on others for approval and can make self directed choices. A person with a poorly developed sense of self worth is more inclined to go against their better judgment in seeking validation and approval. They will also be more fearful of being hurt, often defending themselves with anger, hostility or other unproductive behaviours.
A person’s self concepts can act as a self-fulfilling prophecy. A sound sense of self worth is both the producer and the product of effective and successful behaviour. A significant finding with school students is the correlation between self worth, classroom behaviour and academic achievement. More importantly, when a student leaves school, (and we all did), the implications of having a sound sense of self worth, or lack of it are monumental.
Having self respect and self love, some sense of direction and purpose in life, the ability to access inner strengths, resources, and validation and approval from within, all contribute to an individual being a happy, healthy and successful person.
Our first duty to society is to be somebody; that is, be ourselves
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