Adolescent Self-Esteem in Cross-Cultural Perspective

By S. Farruggia, Chuansheng Chen, E. Greenberger, J. Dmitrieva, P. Macek. 2004

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Theorists and researchers have raised the question of whether self-esteem has similar meanings and correlates in individualistic and collectivist cultures. This study examined the cross-cultural equivalence of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in four countries and compared its association with parental warmth and acceptance and depressed mood. Participants were 11th graders in the United States (n = 422), the Czech Republic (n = 490), China (n = 502), and Korea (n = 497). Cross-cultural similarities in the factor structure of the self-esteem scale and in the relations of self-esteem to other variables were more striking than cross-cultural differences. Across cultures, parental warmth was significantly related to both positive and negative self-image, each of which in turn was related significantly to depressive symptomatology. There was little evidence for the hypothesis that self-esteem would more strongly mediate the relation between parental warmth and adolescent depressive symptoms in the more individualistic(as opposed to collectivist) cultures.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Comparing Self-differentiation and Psychological Well-being between Korean and European American Students (2006, background): “This scale was established to have the cross-cultural equivalence in both Korea and the United States ( Farruggia, Chen, Greenberger, Dmitrieva, & Macek, 2004 ).”
• Perceived Parenting, Self-Esteem, and General Self-Efficacy of Iranian American Adolescents (2010, background): “An auxiliary finding of the study is support for the bidimensional aspect of self-esteem using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale ( Farruggia et al. 2004; Owens 1994; Quilty et al. 2006).”
• Factor Structure of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (2013, background): “…subdimensions based on these analyses (Tomás & Oliver, 1999), the differential pattern of association was consistent with previous studies suggesting that two RSES factors vary in their associations with other constructs (Ang et al., 2006; Farruggia et al., 2004; Owens, 1994; Quilty et al., 2006).”