Roth Marcus, Altmann Tobias
Department of Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jul 24;11:1770. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01770. eCollection 2020.
In contrast to the widely used assessment approach in which self-esteem stability is measured as the standard deviation of repeated measurements, direct measurements of self-esteem stability have hardly ever been implemented in longitudinal studies. The primary goal of the present study was to examine the temporal stability and predictive validity of a direct assessment of self-esteem stability compared with the trait level of self-esteem with respect to the prediction of psychological distress (PD). We examined a sample of 136 employees who completed self-report measures of both self-esteem level [Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)] and self-esteem stability [Self-Esteem Stability Scale (SESS)] along with a measure of PD (SCL-90) at two time points across an interval of 1 year. The results underline the relevance of perceived self-esteem stability in the temporal prediction of PD: After controlling for initial PD, we found that self-esteem stability predicted PD better than self-esteem level did. Therefore, we recommend that the RSES be expanded by adding the three SESS items that directly measure the stability of self-esteem.
与广泛使用的将自尊稳定性测量为重复测量的标准差的评估方法不同，在纵向研究中几乎从未进行过对自尊稳定性的直接测量。本研究的主要目标是，相对于自尊特质水平，检验自尊稳定性直接评估在预测心理困扰（PD）方面的时间稳定性和预测效度。我们考察了136名员工的样本，他们在一年的间隔内的两个时间点完成了自尊水平[罗森伯格自尊量表（RSES）]和自尊稳定性[自尊稳定性量表（SESS）]的自我报告测量以及PD测量（SCL-90）。结果强调了感知到的自尊稳定性在PD时间预测中的相关性：在控制初始PD后，我们发现自尊稳定性比自尊水平能更好地预测PD。因此，我们建议通过添加直接测量自尊稳定性的三个SESS项目来扩展RSES。
