A Literature Review on Stress and Self-Esteem

The paper is a conceptual one to understand the relationship between stress and self esteem. Stress creates, develops and manifests a sort of feelings of unpleasant, emotional psychological arousal.The present paper is a conceptual frame work to understand the root cause of stress as an individual’s appraisal of stressors not the stressors itself.The research workanalyses stress as more of a sort of individual generated which arises out of indidual’sassessment of the stressors of life. The objective of the paper is to find out the psychological aspects of the stress and the relationship between stress and individualselfesteem conceptually.Thepaper suggests in building selfesteemwhich necessarily require to work on building personal competence and social cometence to develop resilience to comprehend stressors as challenges of life not threat. Then only one can raise his/her self esteem to buffer the effect of stressors in life.