title: Stalking the perfect measure of implicit self-esteem: the blind men and the elephant revisited?
abstract: Recent interest in the implicit self-esteem construct has led to the creation and use of several new assessment tools whose psychometric properties have not been fully explored. In this article, the authors investigated the reliability and validity of seven implicit self-esteem measures. The different implicit measures did not correlate with each other, and they correlated only weakly with measures of explicit self-esteem. Only some of the implicit measures demonstrated good test-retest reliabilities, and overall, the implicit measures were limited in their ability to predict our criterion variables. Finally, there was some evidence that implicit self-esteem measures are sensitive to context. The implications of these findings for the future of implicit self-esteem research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA. jebosson@vassar.edu
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Bosson
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Swann
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Pennebaker
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept