Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-worth
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Basic trust is necessary to develop inner security and a feeling of self-worth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How can we increase the awareness of self-worth of our black children.
▪ Nevertheless, the Guild succeeded in imbuing its members with a firm sense of self-worth and purpose.
▪ Second, it can enhance their feelings of self-worth and esteem.
▪ Their feelings of self-worth were higher than they had been during the child-rearing period.
▪ Threats to our sense of dignity and self-worth, and to our authority or control over a situation.
▪ When self-worth is gone, so goes the power to face problems and to solve them.
▪ Without work, meaningful or not, a man or a woman can lose the precious sense of self-worth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
self-worth
n. The value one assigns to oneself or one's abilities in self assessment.
Usage examples of "self-worth".
I had hoped it would entertain himI hadn't thought of the fascination of popping fleasand increase his self-confidence and self-worth and all those other desirable attributes our school psychologist kept talking about.