Multidimensional Scales
Researchers who envision self-esteem to be a multidimensional construct have developed subscales to measures its different domains. The domains correspond to researchers’ views of topics that are relevant to the developing self-concept of children and adolescents. For example, the Piers-Harris Children’s SelfConcept Scale has six subscales that assess Behavioral Adjustment, Intellectual and School Status, Physical Appearance and Attributes, Freedom from Anxiety,
Happiness and Satisfaction, and Popularity. The scale provides a total score that aims to reflect overall selfesteem plus subscale scores and has high internal consistency. A revision which used a geographically diverse standardization sample has expanded the age range from 4th to 12th grade students to ages 7–18 and reduced the number of items from 80 to 60. The Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI) also tests different domains of self-esteem: Total Self-Esteem, Lie Scale, School-Academic Life, Social-Peers, HomeParents, and General Self. As a unidimensional scale, SEI has been found to have considerable construct validity but not across its different dimensions. The Hare SelfEsteem Scale also assesses different domains—School, Peers, and Home—which can be summed to yield a total self-esteem score.
đang được dịch, vui lòng đợi..