1. The factors that contribute to Precious having low self-esteem are negligence because she never received the love, affection nor proper food and shelter. Another factor that affected her was excessive criticism and influences from her mother, where her mother stated to her that she is no good and influenced her to stop school. Also negative experience from her childhood and child abuse as being rape from her father also is a factor of her low self-esteem. Also another factor that did not really seem to affect precious self-esteem but could still be a factor is her physical appearance.
2. Precious displayed several signs of low self-esteem the first being fear, she had fear of losing her child and to an extent a fear towards her mother. She also showed her anger and the little control she had over it. Another sign would be her focus on weaknesses; she had trouble identifying her good qualities. Also another sign present is when she disconnected from reality; she would begin imagining things such as being a star or singer by day dreaming or zoning out.
3. The defense mechanisms used by Precious are denial, repression, suppression, displacement, projection, and reaction formation. Precious use the defense mechanism of denial when she denies being raped by her father. She also shows mechanism of repression and suppression when she wishes to push back her bad memories. She also uses displacement when she comes with a bad attitude at school after being bothered by her mother. Also she uses projection towards her teacher since she has strong dislikes of herself then why would the teacher care either. Finally is reaction formation where precious at first puts up with her mother as herself being happy when the person comes over to the house to inspect them.
4. The neurotic needs precious displayed are the neurotic need for prestige, personal admiration and sufficiency and independence. Her neurotic need for prestige because she always day dream in being appreciated by the public, being famous and popular this may also apply to the neurotic need of personal image where she wants to be admired by her self-image view and not for who she really is. Also the neurotic need for independence and sufficiency at first where she refuses to receive help from the principle at her office by saying nothing is wrong when she really is pregnant from her second child.
5. Precious increased her self-esteem by relaxing and taking time to visualize her life, also to realize her strengths, noticing what she is good at and not expects perfection. She also stopped putting herself down and started to helping and complimenting others. She also stopped complaining about everything, just living life to the fullest and doing what she loves to do which is writing and reading.
6. I learned a very important aspect in life. I learned that everyone has their difficulties in life and that it is up to you if you wish to continue living the way you are or at least try to strive for the better and not give up. I would recommend this movie to all those people who believe life is hard and don’t have a chance in being able to better their lives. There are many people in the world who are weak minded and think they should give up in life, when in reality there are people who live worse than them and precious is a perfect example of this.
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