TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rudolph, Almut
A1  - Schröder-Abé, Michela
A1  - Schütz, Astrid
T1  - I like myself, I really do (at least right now)
BT  - development and validation of a brief and revised (German-language) version of the State Self-Esteem Scale
JF  - European journal of psychological assessment : EJPA
N2  - In five studies, we evaluated the psychometric properties of a revised German version of the State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES; Heatherton & Polivy, 1991). In Study 1, the results of a confirmatory factor analysis on the original scale revealed poor model fit and poor construct validity in a student sample that resembled those in the literature; thus, a revised 15-item version was developed (i.e., the SSES-R) and thoroughly validated. Study 2 showed a valid three-factor structure (Performance, Social, and Appearance) and good internal consistency of the SSES-R. Correlations between subscales of trait and state SE empirically supported the scale's construct validity. Temporal stability and intrapersonal sensitivity of the scale to naturally occurring events were investigated in Study 3. Intrapersonat sensitivity of the scale to experimentally induced changes in state SE was uncovered in Study 4 via social feedback (acceptance vs. rejection) and performance feedback (positive vs. negative). In Study 5, the scale's interpersonal sensitivity was confirmed by comparing depressed and healthy individuals. Finally, the usefulness of the SSES-R was demonstrated by assessing SE instability as calculated from repeated measures of state SE.
KW  - self-esteem
KW  - state self-esteem
KW  - State Self-Esteem Scale
KW  - positive affect
KW  - negative affect
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000501
SN  - 1015-5759
SN  - 2151-2426
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
SP  - 196
EP  - 206
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Göttingen
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rentzsch, Katrin
A1  - Schröder-Abé, Michela
T1  - Top down or bottom up?
BT  - evidence from the longitudinal development of global and domain-specific self-esteem in adulthood
JF  - Journal of personality and social psychology / American Psychological Association
N2  - Classical theoretical perspectives have implied that either global self-esteem has an impact on domain-specific self-esteem (top-down) or domain-specific self-esteem affects global self-esteem (bottom-up). The goal of the present research was to investigate whether classical top-down and bottom-up approaches could withstand a thorough test. To do so, we applied elaborate analytical methods in a four-wave longitudinal study across 6 years with preregistered hypotheses and data analyses. We analyzed data from N = 1,417 German participants (30.6% men, median of 12 to 13 years of education) with an average age of 47.0 years (SD = 12.4, range 18 to 88) at intake. Analyses using latent variable approaches for modeling intraindividual change provided evidence of top-down effects only. For example, participants with higher global self-esteem exhibited an increase in performance self-esteem but not vice versa. Our results also provided evidence of "vertical" associations between global and domain-specific self-esteem, that is, parallel development within the same time frame. In addition, the analyses revealed high rank order stability and a substantial trait component in global self-esteem and the self-esteem domains. The present findings have important theoretical and practical implications for the stability and development of self-esteem in adulthood and advance the understanding of global and domain-specific self-esteem in personality theory.
KW  - self-esteem
KW  - domain-specific
KW  - top-down and bottom-up
KW  - stability
KW  - adulthood
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000393
SN  - 0022-3514
SN  - 1939-1315
VL  - 122
IS  - 4
SP  - 714
EP  - 730
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  -