When are you going to finally feel worthy? This is a lifelong question many of us wrestle with our entire careers, and now science has an answer about when it’s most likely to happen: age 60. In a new analysis on 191 research articles about self-esteem, covering data from almost 165,000 people, researchers in Psychological Bulletin concluded that your later midlife is when you’ll have the highest self-esteem.
You’ll have more self-esteem when you’re older

For those of us struggling to define our self-worth in our early careers, there is some good news to look forward to later. The researchers found that our self-esteem has a natural lifespan, peaking at age 60 and remaining constant until age 70, regardless of the gender, ethnicity, or nationality of the participants.

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