Ive heard of both but i dont understand the difference…also, how can you tell them apart? As in how does someone with social anxiety act compared to someone with low self esteem?
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Social anxiety is a disorder where you get nervous and can have panic attacks over just talking to someone or being in a public place. They get really scared talking to someone new or anyone in general. Someone with low self esteem acts normally but is just insecure and not confident in themselves but it doesn’t affect their day to day life
I coach people on both subjects. I think there are occasions where people with low self-esteem or social anxiety may behave in the same way – but most likely for a different reason.
I like the model of self-esteem developed by a writer called Chris Mruk. He sees self-esteem being made up of 2 components – competence and self-worth. Either of these can be high or low. Competence is about how competent you believe you are in your ability to live your life. For example you may feel very competent in your job. Self-worth is about how much you feel valued and worthwhile as a person. Someone with high feelings of competence and low self-worth may be the kind of person you meet who is a bit of a workaholic. They compensate for their lack of self-worth by being recognised for their competence. Someone with high self-worth and low competence can be narcissistic, any perceived threat to their worth is met with quite an aggressive response. So ideally people would have a reasonable level of both components.
Tony
Executive and Career Coach