Relationships

For the last couple posts, I was looking for more personal and self-esteem related issues on fears and insecurities. I just realized that our inner self can affect relationships as well. So as I searched "insecurity" and "relationship," I found an article about how research shows that those with low self esteem have less stable relationships and because they are unhappy with themselves, it shows when they exhibit on their partner.

Lomore, C. D., Spencer, S. J., & Holmes, J. G. (2007). The Role of Shared-values Affirmation in Enhancing the Feelings of Low Self-esteem Women about their Relationships. Self & Identity, 6(4), 340-360. doi:10.1080/15298860601109487

Another article I found on insecurities and relationships is named: Nakashima, K., Isobe, C., & Ura, M. (2012). In-group representation and social value affect the use of in-group identification for maintaining and enhancing self-evaluation. Asian Journal Of Social Psychology, 15(1), 49-59. doi:10.1111/j.1467-839X.2011.01361.
 
In this article, a survey questionnaire for university students is managed to observe the relationship between in-group values and self esteem. The results shows that those who's self-esteem were more susceptible to change when their social group was high in social value (Nakashima, et, 1). 

Obviously, both findings determined that relationships amongst peers of similar or higher status are clearly important to self esteem and insecurity issues. This makes sense because humans usually look to others for acceptance and guidance for social norms.