What term describes a person's overall subjective emotional evaluation of their own worth?

• A. Self Esteem
• B. Traits
• C. Trait Theories
• D. Personality Inventories

Answer: (A)

Self-esteem is the overall subjective emotional evaluation of one’s own worth. It reflects how valuable, worthy, and capable a person feels about themselves as a whole, across different situations and domains. This differs from traits, which are stable patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving; trait theories, which are frameworks for explaining how those stable patterns form; and personality inventories, which are tools that measure multiple traits to profile someone’s personality. So the term describes the global sense of self-worth and emotional value, rather than a specific trait or a measurement method.