The Tunisian Center of Early Intervention in Psychosis, Department of psychiatry "Ibn Omrane", Razi Hospital, Manouba, 2010, Tunisia.
Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia.
BMC Psychiatry. 2023 May 22;23(1):351. doi: 10.1186/s12888-023-04865-y.
Meta-analytic findings documented a substantial impact of self-esteem on a broad range of psychological and behavioral indicators, thus highlighting its high clinical relevance. Proving a simple and cost-effective measure of global self-esteem to the Arabic-speaking community, who mostly live in low- and middle-income countries, and where research may be challenging, would be highly valuable. In this context, we sought to investigate the psychometric characteristics of an Arabic translation of the Single-Item Self-Esteem Scale (A-SISE) in terms of factor structure, reliability, and construct validity.
A total of 451 participants were enrolled between October and December 2022. An anonymous self-administered Google Forms link was shared on WhatsApp. To examine the factor structure of the A-SISE, we used the FACTOR software. We conducted an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), using a principal component analysis on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) items first, then after adding the A-SISE.
The results of the EFA of the RSES revealed two factors (F1 = negatively-worded items; F2 = positively-worded items), which explained 60.63% of the common variance. When adding the A-SISE, the two-factor solution obtained explained 58.74% of the variance, with the A-SISE loading on the second factor. Both RSES and A-SISE correlated significantly and positively with each other, as well as with extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, open mindedness and satisfaction with life. Moreover, they correlated significantly and negatively with negative emotionality and depression.
These results suggest that the A-SISE is a simple-to-use, cost-effective, valid and reliable measure of self-esteem. We thus recommend its use in future research among Arabic-speaking people in Arab clinical and research settings, particularly when researchers are limited by time or resources constraints.
元分析结果证明，自尊对广泛的心理和行为指标都有实质性影响，因此凸显了其高度的临床相关性。为阿拉伯语人群提供一种简单且具有成本效益的全球自尊衡量方法，对他们来说非常重要。阿拉伯语人群主要生活在中低收入国家，在这些国家进行研究可能具有挑战性。在这种情况下，我们试图探讨单项目自尊量表（A-SISE）阿拉伯语翻译本在结构、信度和构念效度方面的心理测量学特征。
2022 年 10 月至 12 月期间共纳入 451 名参与者。在 WhatsApp 上共享了一个匿名的 Google Forms 链接。为了检验 A-SISE 的结构，我们使用了 FACTOR 软件。我们首先对罗森伯格自尊量表（RSES）项目进行主成分分析，然后在此基础上进行探索性因素分析（EFA）。
RSES 的 EFA 结果显示出两个因素（F1=负向题项；F2=正向题项），这两个因素解释了 60.63%的共同方差。当加入 A-SISE 后，获得的两因素解决方案解释了 58.74%的方差，A-SISE 加载在第二个因素上。RSES 和 A-SISE 与外向性、宜人性、尽责性、开放性和生活满意度都显著正相关，与负性情感和抑郁显著负相关。
这些结果表明，A-SISE 是一种简单易用、具有成本效益、有效且可靠的自尊衡量方法。因此，我们建议在阿拉伯临床和研究环境中，阿拉伯语人群的未来研究中使用 A-SISE，尤其是当研究人员受到时间或资源限制时。
