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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rentzsch, Katrin
A1  - Schröder-Abe, Michela
T1  - Stability and change in domain-specific Self-esteem and global self-esteem
JF  - European journal of personality
N2  - A notable uptick of interest in the stability of self-esteem has been observed over the past few years. Most researchers, however, have focused on unidimensional rather than multidimensional conceptualizations of self-esteem. The paucity of empirical research is surprising given conflicting theoretical perspectives on the stability of self-esteem. The goal of the present study was to thoroughly disentangle different conceptualizations of self-esteem and test opposing classical theories on (i) the stability and (ii) the direction of mutual influence of these different forms of self-esteem. We analysed two-year longitudinal data from participants (N=644 at T1, N=241 at T2) with an average age of 47.0years (SD=12.4). Analyses using a latent variable approach revealed that the domains of self-esteem were relatively stable in terms of rank order and mean levels. 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. Results did not provide support for either top-down or bottom-up effects between domain-specific and global self-esteem. These findings have important theoretical and practical implications regarding the stability and development of self-esteem in adulthood and advance the understanding of self-esteem in personality theory. (c) 2018 European Association of Personality Psychology
KW  - self-esteem
KW  - stability
KW  - multidimensional
KW  - domain specific
KW  - adulthood
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2167
SN  - 0890-2070
SN  - 1099-0984
VL  - 32
IS  - 4
SP  - 353
EP  - 370
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -