The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was translated into 28 languages and administered to 16,998 participants across 53 nations. The RSES factor structure was largely invariant across nations. RSES scores correlated with neuroticism, extraversion, and romantic attachment styles within nearly all nations, providing additional support for cross-cultural equivalence of the RSES. All nations scor...

Objective: The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of group narrative therapy on enhancing self-esteem and self-efficacy of 20 Iranian male orphan adolescents (13-18 years of age). Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. Then, a 10-week group therapy was performed. Outcome measures included the Rosenberg selfesteem inventory an...

Attitudes toward violence and reasons for living in young adolescents with high, moderate, and low self-esteem were examined. The authors devised an Attitudes Toward Violence questionnaire; the Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale (RSE) and the Brief Reasons for Living in Adolescents (BRFL-A) was used to assess adaptive characteristics. The independent variables were gender and self-esteem. The depend...

Title of Document: RACE AND SELF IMAGE: HOW MOTHERS’ SOCIALIZATION MATTERS Heather Elizabeth Ridolfo, M.A., 2007 Directed By: Melissa Milkie, Ph.D. Department of Sociology For adolescents, having a strong Self is an important component of entering into adulthood successfully. Research suggests that despite living in a society often hostile to them, Black adolescents have Selves that is at least...

This study investigated the factor structure of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), the differences in mean level of self-esteem and its association with depression in adolescents in three different cultures. The RSES and the Children’s Depression Inventory were administered to Chinese (N = 350), Italian (N = 352), and Costa Rican (N = 343) adolescents. Confirmatory factor analyses supporte...

BACKGROUND The Experiencing of Self Scale (EOSS) was created to evaluate the experience of the personal self, within the field of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. This paper presents a study of the reliability and validity of the EOSS in a Spanish sample. METHOD The study sample, chosen from 24 different centres, comprised 1,040 participants aged between 18-75, of whom 32% were men and 68% ...

OBJECTIVE The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) is a widely used instrument that has been tested for reliability and validity in many settings; however, some negative-worded items appear to have caused it to reveal low reliability in a number of studies. In this study, we revised one negative item that had previously (from the previous studies) produced the worst outcome in terms of the struct...

BACKGROUND Being a mother is considered by many women as their most important role in life. Women's perceptions of their abilities to manage the demands of parenting and the parenting skills they posses are reflected by perceived maternal role competence. The present study was carried out to assess the perceived maternal role competence and its associated factors among mothers. METHODS A desc...

This study examines the association between family function and self-esteem of Chinese university students with grandparenting experience, and explores the moderating effects of social support in this link. Two thousand five hundred thirty university students (1372 males and 1158 females) from a Chinese university completed the Perceived Social Support Scale, the Rosenberg's Self-esteem Scale, ...

Objective: the aim of the present study was to determine the validity, and reliability of Persian version of Adult Sources of Self-Esteem Inventory as the cross cultural scale for assessment of the self-esteem. Method: A sample of 500 students (350 females, 150male) were selected from Kharazmi university in Iran and completed the Persian version of the Adult Sources of Elovson and Fleming’s S...