Pride: “the happy confluence of the affect joy and the experience of personal efficacy” (Nathanson, 1987, p.186). In brief, when we feel adequate within ourselves, we feel pride; when we feel inadequate, we feel shame. Donald L. Nathanson writes: ‘Intrinsic to the experience of pride is a certain tendency to broadcast one’s success to the world, whereas equally true of shame is a wish to conceal (Nathanson,1987, p.184). Pride and shame oscillate “between public and private, b