title: The relationship between self-esteem and psychological adjustment in young adolescents.
abstract: The study adopts a multi-dimensional construct of self-esteem to examine the relationship between self-perception and psychological adjustment in order to identify specific dimensions that discriminate between disturbed and non-disturbed groups. The disturbed group (n = 33) is derived from a clinical sample and are matched with a non-disturbed group (n = 33) of adolescents. Results indicate that dimensional self-concept scores are significantly lower for clinical subjects while there are no significant differences between groups on the mathematics, honesty, and physical ability dimensions. These findings provide a more fine grained understanding of the relationship between self-esteem and psychological adjustment and emphasize the need to examine self-esteem in terms of its particular dimensions.
authors.affiliation: Queensland University of Technology, Red Hill, Australia.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Schweitzer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seth-Smith
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Callan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors