A Norwegian translation of the self-liking and competence scale

Although global self-esteem has historically been assumed to be a unidimens ional construct, recent theory and research has challenged this assumption. Instead, it has been suggested that self-esteem might more fruitfully be v iewed as a two-dimensional construct composed of: (a) self-liking, based on our perceptions of feedback from our social environment; and (b) self-comp etence, based on our internal conceptions of success and failure in perform ing tasks. The Self-Liking and Competence Scale (SLCS) is a self-esteem mea sure that has recently been developed based on this two-dimensional concept ualization of self-esteem. The purpose of the present research was to valid ate a Norwegian translation of the SLCS. 372 participants were given a tran slated version of the SLCS, and the translated scale exhibited psychometric properties similar to those of the original English version of the scale.