title: Gender differences in the source and level of self-esteem of Chinese college students.
abstract: This research examined possible gender differences in the source and level of self-esteem of 99 male and 90 female undergraduates from mainland and China. There was little evidence of a gender difference in the level of overall self-esteem, but gender differences were evident in the subjects' ratings of the importance to their self-concept and their self-satisfaction with lower order facets of the self, indicating the necessity for using multidimensional measures of the self and for preserving the self-concept/self-esteem distinction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Education, University of Hong Kong.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*