This study was designed to assess the relationship between life satisfaction with two components of psychological well-being (depression and self-esteem) among young adult female university students. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw the sample. Female university students (N=200) age range of 18 to 24 with (Mean age = 21years; S.D=1.67) from different educational organizations o...

The purpose of this research was the definition of the dimensionality of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES; Rosenberg, 1965) among Italian adults. The RSES external relations with self-efficacy and attachment styles were also examined. An important goal was moreover the analysis of the functioning of RSES items when related to self-efficacy and attachment style. A latent trait approach was ...

The current research examines gender differences in the self esteem and happiness of university students. A sample of 120 students (60 males and 60 females) was drawn from the various departments of university of Sargodha within the age range of 18-26 years. Convenience sampling technique was used. Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1985) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills and Argyl...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between shame and guilt to aspects of psychological well-being such as self-esteem and social connectedness in Irish adults. Data was collected from 115 adults; 39 males and 76 females between the ages of 18 and 52. An online questionnaire was administered incorporating the State Shame and Guilt Scale (Marshall, Sanfner & Tangney,...

BACKGROUND Self-esteem is positively associated to the well being of people and could be a good mental health indicator. AIM To determine the reliability and validity of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale in a Chilean adult sample. MATERIAL AND METHODS The instrument was applied to 473 subjects living in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, evenly distributed according to gender, age, educatio...

We provide the first high-temporal resolution account of the self-esteem implicit association test (IAT; Greenwald & Farnham, 2000) to highlight important similarities and differences between the cognitive processes corresponding to implicit valenced self-processing in high vs. low self-esteem individuals. We divided individuals into high and low self-esteem groups based on the Rosenberg self-e...

We investigated the relationships between global self-esteem, academic self-efficacy and academic performance among a sample of 255 college students in the United Arab Emirates. The widely used Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES; Rosenberg, 1965) and an academic self-efficacy scale, modified from (Jinks and Morgan, 1999) were used to assess student’s self-esteem and their academic self-efficac...

BACKGROUND Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that has an impact on the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) of sufferers as well as their children. To date, no study has investigated the effects of parental leprosy on the well-being of adolescent children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Lalitpur and Kathmandu districts of Nepal. Adolescents with leprosy-affected ...

Some researchers contend that the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale taps two dimensions of self-image, whereas others argue that the two dimensions (positive and negative) are merely an artifact of item wording. To directly test these competing views, we had 741 ethnically diverse university undergraduates take one of three versions of the 10-item Rosenberg Scale: the original version comprised of fi...