| A | B |
| mental/emotional health | you can manage your emotions and deal with the demands and challenges of your life |
| resilient | can recover from difficulty or crisis |
| self-esteem | how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself |
| competence | having enough skills to do something |
| self-talk | the encouragement or criticism that you give yourself |
| hierarchy of needs | a list of those needs essential to human growth and development |
| self-actualization | striving to become the best you can be |
| personal identitiy | your sense of yourself as a unique individual |
| role model | someone whose behavior serves as an example for you |
| personality | the set of traits that makes you unique |
| character | the qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves |
| integrity | a frim observance of core ethical values |
| constructive criticism | comments that point out problems and encourage improvement |
| emotions | signals that tell your mind and body how to react |
| hormones | chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of your body's cells |
| emapthy | the ability to imagine, feel, and understand how someone else feels |
| defense mechanisms | mental processes that protect a person from strong emotions |
| perception | the act of becoming aware through the senses |
| stressor | anything that causes stress |
| psychosomatic response | a physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury or illness |