Construct Validity and Dimensionality of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Its Association with Spiritual Values Within Irish Population
| Autor: | Ciarán Ó. Mathúna, Krzysztof Kielkiewicz, Christopher McLaughlin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Population 050109 social psychology Affect (psychology) Structural equation modeling 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Self-esteem Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Spirituality 030212 general & internal medicine education General Nursing media_common education.field_of_study Original Paper 05 social sciences Religious studies Rosenberg self-esteem scale Construct validity General Medicine Confirmatory factor analysis Self Concept SEM Construct (philosophy) Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical Social psychology Ireland |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Religion and Health |
| ISSN: | 1573-6571 0022-4197 |
| Popis: | Until this research, correlation of Rosenberg's (1965) self-esteem scale (RSES), with religious and spiritual values, was never investigated using the measure as a twofold construct instead of the monolithic form. This research paper explores the prediction of RSES by spiritual values using a twofold structure of: self-esteem-positive (SEP) and self-esteem-negative (SEN), to specify individual and fragmented correlations with spirituality, which until now was unobtainable. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling were applied to analyse the data. The survey was conducted among two-hundred and sixty-eight participants from the Republic of Ireland. The research finds that spirituality influences peoples' self-esteem, but clear and linear correlation between spirituality and self-esteem is difficult to be concluded. People respond oppositely and differently to positive and to negative items in the RSES which indicates that the measure is a combination of two statistically consistent constructs: SEP and SEN. The results of the study confirm that there are many spiritual areas that affect self-esteem. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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