A new study has concluded that self esteem faces a slump in older adults in comparison to the middle aged people. The study lays stress on the finding that middle aged people come out to be the more confident in personality.

A longitudinal study was conducted of both men and women who were between the age group of 25 to 104. The study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by the American Psychological Association.

It has been stressed that self esteem is directly linked to improved health, less involvement in criminal activity, least rate of depression and guarantees success in life. Self esteem has become an important subject to study because a person's self esteem is altered over time.

The study has been conducted four times between 1986 and 2002, and survey included approximately 3617 adults in the United States. Self-esteem was measured by the researchers by putting them question involving their level of agreement.

Subjects were also questioned about their society, teaching, learning, earning, job status, relationship satisfaction, health and communal support and were questioned about their stressful life events.

Throughout adulthood, it was noticed that the women suffered with much lower self- esteem in comparison to the men but no such difference was faced between black and whites.