CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF THE CULTURE-FREE SELF-ESTEEM INVENTORY AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN COLLEGE-STUDENTS

Authors
CARROLL JL BUHROW M
Citation
Jl. Carroll et M. Buhrow, CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF THE CULTURE-FREE SELF-ESTEEM INVENTORY AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN COLLEGE-STUDENTS, Psychological reports, 74(2), 1994, pp. 553-554
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
Psychological reports → ACNP
ISSN journal
00332941
Volume
74
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
553 - 554
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-2941(1994)74:2<553:CVOTCS>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
55 college students received the Culture-free Self-esteem Inventory an d a 13-item measure of physical health; significant Pearson correlatio ns (generally in the .40s) were found on all but one subscale of the s elf-concept measure and the health measure. The results are in line wi th research using other measures of self-esteem and physical health an d suggest that the self-esteem inventory may be useful as a research m easure.