Domain Specific Self Esteem
This study examines the development of global self esteem and self esteem in 6 specific domains across adolescence and young adulthood.
Domain specific self esteem. However domain specific self esteem was a stronger predictor of aggression among adolescents. In contrast domain specific self esteem is particular to a single area or individual activity such as how we look our performance at school and whether we succeed at work. Refers to the overall aggregated opinion of oneself at any one time on a scale between negative and positive harter 1993 p 88 as cited in kling et al 1999. Questionnaire data provided information on global self esteem and self esteem in social academic.
The other three measures assess global and domain specific self evaluations but in some research contexts only the global self esteem subscales are used. This study examines the development of global self esteem and self esteem in 6 specific domains across adolescence and young adulthood. Implications for the comparative use of multidimensional and global self esteem were discussed and recommendations for future research have. Using a cohort sequential design we analyzed longitudinal data on 3 116 norwegian men and women from 13 to 31 years of age by means of growth curve modeling.
Rosenberg self esteem scale rse. Nevertheless global and domain specific self esteem are. Using a cohort sequential design we analyzed longitudinal data on 3 116 norwegian men and women from 13 to 31 years of age by means of growth curve modeling. Our global self esteem represents an overall view of our self worth across multiple dimensions of our lives.
In work with adults the rse is by far the most widely used measure of self esteem and it has received more psychometric analysis and empirical validation than any other self esteem measure. A well known example is the large body of research on the relationship between race and self esteem. This study aimed firstly to investigate domain specific self concepts and global self esteem in autistic adults. The third was to determine which domains of self concept were most closely.
This study is the first to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of global and domain specific self esteem throughout adolescence and young adulthood using long term longitudinal data. Global self esteem and specific self esteem 143 the fallacy of equating global and specific self esteem in more than a few self esteem studies the failure to distinguish the parts from the whole has led to a number of misunderstand ings. The results underscore the importance of examining development of self esteem in specific domains in addition to global self esteem. In fact the size of the stability coefficients was comparable to that of other trait measures that have been reported in the literature and paralleled the stability observed for global self esteem.
Relates to one s self esteem in regard of a particular area such as sport. As it relates to aggression the pathways to global self esteem differed from domain specific self esteem.