SELF-ESTEEM SUCH AS EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL COMPONENT OF SELF-SYSTEM

Past and even present interest in the problem of the self-system and the self-esteem or personal regulation led to numerous constructions, expressing various aspects of the SELF. The self use to be characterized as a multi-factor hierarchical structure of the knowledge and ideas about the self from the point of view of the content, in which the self-esteem use to be perceived as a global self-worth. The authors of the paper analyze particular levels of the SELF with the emphasis on the self-esteem. They introduce some partial results of an experimental research on the self-esteem of Slovak university student depending on the basic demographical data and within the relation to their smoking/non-smoking habits.