Development of a new self-report questionnaire to measure self esteem | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

Synopsis

In constructing a new self-report questionnaire for measuring self esteem, the aim has been to satisfy psychometric requirements without sacrificing the intuitive meaning of the concept. Self esteem is seen as a composite, and examination of its components may have more analytic or predictive value than ‘ global’ scores. Preliminary reliability and validity data are encouraging.

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