Self Esteem In Adolescence

Self-esteem is an individual’s general positive and negative self-evaluation.

Adolescents, become increasingly accurate in understanding who they are (their self-concept), which permits them to see themselves fully. It is what they do with these perceptions that leads them to develop a sense of their self-esteem. Self-esteem is influenced by a many factors including race and gender. Developmentalists who believe it’s the combination of race and gender, coined the term ethgender, referring to the joint influence of race and gender. I am researching ethgender in relation to self-esteem in adolescence. Research questions would include: do males have a higher self-esteem than females? Which ethnicity has reported for having the highest self-esteem? Are the differences in self-esteem

Morris Rosenberg, measures global self-esteem in adolescents. Global self-esteem refers to our overall self-worth and the Rosenberg scale measures this core self-esteem. Rosenberg used this scale in studying specific racial groups and he did not find any significant differences in levels of global self-esteem. The scale also is used to examine differences between genders. According to Rosenberg, the self-concept is comprised of parts organized in hierarchical and complex ways. The global self-concept and the groups "... exist within the individual 's phenomenal field as separate and distinguishable entities, and each can and should be studied in their own right." The article “The Relation Of Age, Gender, Ethnicity, And Risk Behaviors To Self-Esteem Among Students In Nonmainstream Schools” uses a version of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in order to measure students ' self-esteem. The scale includes ten items rated on a 4-point scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." The scores range from 10 to 40, with 40 as the highest level of self-esteem. The scale has been reported as a reliable