An important principle of human relationships is that we tend to feel most comfortable, most “at home,” with persons whose self-esteem level resembles our own. Opposites may attract about some issues, but not about this one. High-self-esteem individuals tend to be drawn to high-self-esteem individuals. We do not see a passionate love affair, for example, between persons at opposite ends of the self-esteem continuum—just as we are not likely to see a passionate romance between intelligence and stupidity.
This could be an interesting argument when discussing friendships. Especially the way cliques are formed: jocks with jocks, nerds with other nerds.
This could be a good example of how unlikely relationships may be formed because of matching self-efficacy, but not self-esteem. TBD
