Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)
Psychology: Personality1 sample item
About this scale
Self esteem is one's own feeling of worthyness. In the 1960s, Rosenberg developed a 10 item scale to measure it (Rosenberg, 1965). There is an alternative scale in the survey library as well, namely the State Self Esteem Scale . This 10-item scale takes only a minute or so to fill in.
Sample item(s)
“Survey code includes 11 item lines. Open PsyToolkit to review wording and permissions.”
Notes
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Source & citation
http://www.socy.umd.edu/quick-links/rosenberg-self-esteem-scale [Detailed description of scale at the University of Maryland, where Professor Rosenberg worked.[ | The scale description and a statement about its use . | Robins, R.W., Hendin, H.M., and Trzesniewski, K.H. (2001). Measuring Global Self-Esteem: Construct Validation of a Single-Item Measure and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27 , 151-161. | Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | Rosenberg, M. (1989). Society and the adolescent self- image . Revised edition. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Self esteem
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document from York university
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