The place of self-esteem in interpersonal behavior.

Two measures of self-esteem (Confidence and Perceived Social Approval) were administered with the short form of the Interpersonal Style Inventory to 75 male high school students. The purpose was to determine the place of self-esteem in the domain of interpersonal behavior. A principal components analysis of the intercorrelations among the 17 scale scores disclosed six factors. After an oblique rotation (Promax) the factors were interpreted as higher-order dimensions of Impulse Control, Level of Socialization, Interpersonal Involvement, and Autonomy. Confidence and Popularity emerged as two separate factors; the first was seen as a broad dimension of self-confident, rule-free stability.