Contingencies of self-worth in college students: theory and measurement.
The Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale assesses 7 sources of self-esteem in college students: academics, appearance, approval from others, competition, family support, God's love, and virtue. In confirmatory factor analyses on data from 1,418 college students, a 7-factor model fit to the data acceptably well and significantly better than several plausible alternative models. The subscales all have high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, are distinct from other personality measures, and have a simplex structure arrayed on a continuum from external to internal sources of self-esteem. Contingencies of self-worth assessed prior to college predicted how students spent their time during their 1st year of college.
Crocker
Jennifer
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Institute for Social Research, Research Center for Group Dynamics, and Department of Psychology,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA. jcrocker@umich.edu
Luhtanen
Riia K
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Cooper
M Lynne
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Bouvrette
Alexandra
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*