This makes a lot of sense to me. It fits in with my sense that:
people with low self-esteem don’t expect others to help/support them long-term, as they feel they’ll be ‘found out’ as being worthless/terrible
whenever anyone is helpful to them they respond disproportionately effusively and say how kind the other person is.
In future I will model surprising low self-esteem as failing to accurately read signals about their level of respect/power. And that people with appropriately low levels of low self-esteem should focus on being useful to the people and communities around them.
This makes a lot of sense to me. It fits in with my sense that:
people with low self-esteem don’t expect others to help/support them long-term, as they feel they’ll be ‘found out’ as being worthless/terrible
whenever anyone is helpful to them they respond disproportionately effusively and say how kind the other person is.
In future I will model surprising low self-esteem as failing to accurately read signals about their level of respect/power. And that people with appropriately low levels of low self-esteem should focus on being useful to the people and communities around them.