中文摘要：

自尊作为人类千百年来为解决各种生存和发展问题而形成和进化的适应器，是表征机制、监控机制、更新机制、评价机制、激励机制和行为输出机制的集合体，其适应功能体现在社会地位、择偶等问题上。目前有关自尊进化机制的研究正在逐渐形成一个完整的理论体系，研究者从自尊的进化起源、自尊机制的心理成分与社会适应功能方面展开了大量研究，但在自尊进化机制领域的实证研究尚显不足。因此，未来的研究应从进化心理学视角开展自尊心理机制的实证研究，以期进一步完善自尊进化机制的理论体系。

英文摘要：

Self-esteem, an adaptive mechanism to solving the problems of survival and development throughout human evolutionary history, is a collection of internal representations, monitoring mechanisms, updating mechanisms, evaluative mechanisms, motivational mechanisms and mechanisms designed to generate behavioral output, and its adaptive functions mainly embodied in the problems faced by humans, such as social status and mating. Though related researches involve its origin, composition and adaptive function currently on self-esteem, yet few did empirical studies to make it a systematic theory. Therefore, in order to form a systematic evolutionary theory of self-esteem, empirical researches should be strengthened from the perspective of evolutionary psychology.