The schema approach to self-concept was used to investigate the association between body-weight self-conception and self-esteem, negative affect states, and disordered eating behavior in women with anorexia nervosa (n = 26) or bulimia nervosa (n = 53) using experience sampling methodology. We predicted that self-esteem would be lower and unpleasant affect and disordered eating behaviors would b...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.008 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (S.A. Ros Influential social and personality psychology research indicates that narcissism is related to psychological health. Such inferences are open to question, however, because they nearly all rely on the same selfreport instrument—the Narcissistic ...

A large body of research on African Americans and self-esteem has focused on factors that contribute to self-esteem. However, most studies have utilized samples of children or adolescents rather than adults. Although studies of children and adolescents provide important insights about sources of self-esteem for African Americans, this research has examined a limited number of variables and as a...

This study evaluated the factor structure of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) with a diverse sample of 1,248 European American, Latino, Armenian, and Iranian adolescents. Adolescents completed the 10-item RSES during school as part of a larger study on parental influences and academic outcomes. Findings suggested that method effects in the RSES are more strongly associated with negatively...

A 21-year longitudinal study investigated whether self-esteem in early and late adolescence, at ages 12 and 18, and any changes in it is related to dispositional optimism–pessimism in adulthood, at the age of 33. The subjects comprised a population-based sample of young Finns. The results showed that the selfesteem measured during adolescent years is significantly associated with dispositional ...

in Pennsylvania face the same challenges as many of their peers across the country, including poor employment, education, and criminal justice system outcomes (Wimer and Bloom, 2014). To address these obstacles, human services and community-based programs seek to capitalize on the strengths of youth while recognizing the heterogeneity and interactive nature of both positive and negative individ...

We investigated the development of three aspects of implicit social cognition (selfesteem, group identity, and group attitude) and their interrelationships in Hispanic American children (ages 5 to 12) and adults. Hispanic children and adults showed positive implicit self-esteem and a preference for and identification with their ingroup when the comparison group was another disadvantaged minorit...

Chinese and Korean protests over “revisionist” Japanese histories of World War II are well known. The impact of contested Chinese and US histories of the Korean War on US-China relations today has received less attention. More broadly, there has been little research seeking to systematically explore just how history textbook controversies matter for international relations. This article experim...

The main purpose this study is to investigate the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent compulsive buying behaviour. Using a sample of 300 adolescents (15-18 years) in India and the structural equation modelling technique, the findings reveal that self-esteem mediates the relationship between parent-adolescent relationship and ad...

The vulnerability of young people with developmental disabilities is intensified for a number of reasons; isolation, limited cognitive abilities, language, speech or vocabulary barriers, dependence on others for personal care, risk of low selfesteem, depersonalization, powerlessness, lack of education on sexuality and abuse/ harassment prevention, non-protective organizational structures and po...