title: Self-esteem of adolescent females as related to race, economic status, and area of residence.
abstract: The Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale was used to measure the self-esteem of 109 14- and 16-yr.-old (+/- 6 mo.) girls. The self-esteem scores were categorized by economic status, race, and area of residence. For urban girls mean self-esteem of upper economic status subjects was significantly higher than that of those at the lower economic status. The self-esteem of upper economic status urban girls was significantly higher than the self-esteem of their rural peers. Finally, the self-esteem of the urban black girls was significantly higher than the self-esteem of the urban white girls.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012424:Rural Population; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population