Self-regard: a new measure
| Autor: | Andreas Maercker, Mardi J. Horowitz, Dean Sonneborn, Sugahara C |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Psychometrics Personality Inventory media_common.quotation_subject Self-concept Developmental psychology Life Change Events Social Desirability Surveys and Questionnaires Personality Humans Association (psychology) media_common Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Self Middle Aged Self Concept Regression Psychology Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Spouse Grief Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The American journal of psychiatry. 153(3) |
| ISSN: | 0002-953X |
| Popis: | Objective : The status of patients and research subjects is usually considered in terms of self-reported symptoms. Measures seldom include disturbances in a conscious sense of the self. An additional brief measure of the sense of current self-regard is desirable, since a conscious lapse in an integrated self-concept may occur under stressful circumstances. The authors constructed and tested such a measure. Method : Clinical interviews had indicated five common experiences that occurred more frequently as complaints during stress-induced regressions in the sense of the self as a functioning mind-body agency. An anchored five-item scale, the Self-Regard Questionnaire, was constructed and tested with 79 subjects who were in the midst of grief from the death of a spouse. Data analyses included checks on the internal coherence of questionnaire scale scores and their association with symptom, personality, and social desirability measures. Results : The five-item Self-Regard Questionnaire was completed quickly, in less than a minute, and led to internally consistent and unique data. Low levels of overall self-regard were correlated with higher levels of distress and predicted prolonged distress. Conclusions : These results suggest that the questionnaire is a useful, quick, and easy-to-score self-report tool for assessing, and reassessing over time, current experiences of the self. The five questions may also be useful to clinicians who evaluate patients in contexts other than research. |
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