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Positive and negative global self-esteem: A substantively meaningful distinction or artifactors?
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Global self-esteem based on M. Rosenberg's (1965) scale is typically treated as a unidimensional scale. However, factor analyses suggest separate factors associated with positively and negatively worded items, and there is an ongoing debate about the substantive meaningfulness of this distinction. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to evaluate alternative 1- and 2-factor models and to test hypotheses about how the factors vary with reading ability and age. Responses based on the National Longitudinal Study of 1988 (S.J. Ingles et al., 1992) reflected a relatively unidimensional factor and method effects associated with negatively worded items. Such effects are common in rating scale responses, and this CFA approach may be useful in evaluating whether factors associated with positively and negatively worded items are substantively meaningful or artifactors.
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- Authors
- Marsh, H. W.
- Affiliations
- Western Sydney University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Marsh, Herbert W.
- ORCID
- Marsh, Herbert W.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1996
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 810-819
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W4237817862
- Cited by
- 811
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- FWCI
- 6.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Keywords
- global self-esteem, positive self-esteem, negative self-esteem, self-esteem measurement, measurement artifacts, self-concept
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Child, Educational Status, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Personality Development, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Reading, Self Concept, Reproducibility of Results
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