TY - JOUR
T1 - Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)
T2 - Analysis of the factorial structure and proposal of a new version of only positive items
AU - Vilca, Lindsey W.
AU - Travezaño-Cabrera, Aaron
AU - Santos-Garcia, Stephany
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022. Universidad de Almería and Ilustre Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Andalucía Oriental (Spain). All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Introduction. The objective was to evaluate the factor structure and propose a new version of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale with only positive items to overcome the method effect associated with negative items. Method. A version A (positive and negative items) and a version B (only positive items) were considered. A sample of 350 university students was collected for each version. Results. The CFA shows that version A's one-dimensional model (A1) does not present adequate fit indices. It was also found that adding a specific factor for negative items (model A2) and another factor for positive items (model A3) does not improve the fit indices. A twodimensional model (A4 model) does not improve the fit indices either. Regarding the onedimensional model of version B, it presents a superior fit compared to the original model (model A1) Discussion and Conclusions. It is concluded that version B, a proposal of only positive items, adequately measures self-esteem since it does not have negative items and agrees with Rosenberg's original approach.
AB - Introduction. The objective was to evaluate the factor structure and propose a new version of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale with only positive items to overcome the method effect associated with negative items. Method. A version A (positive and negative items) and a version B (only positive items) were considered. A sample of 350 university students was collected for each version. Results. The CFA shows that version A's one-dimensional model (A1) does not present adequate fit indices. It was also found that adding a specific factor for negative items (model A2) and another factor for positive items (model A3) does not improve the fit indices. A twodimensional model (A4 model) does not improve the fit indices either. Regarding the onedimensional model of version B, it presents a superior fit compared to the original model (model A1) Discussion and Conclusions. It is concluded that version B, a proposal of only positive items, adequately measures self-esteem since it does not have negative items and agrees with Rosenberg's original approach.
KW - Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale
KW - confirmatory factor analysis
KW - construct validity
KW - negative items
KW - self-esteem
KW - university students
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129394268
SN - 1699-5880
VL - 20
SP - 225
EP - 240
JO - Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology
JF - Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology
IS - 56
ER -