Self-report measure

Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem uses 10 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Self-Esteem.

You learn how much you like and respect yourself overall.

For anyone who wants a clear reading of how they value themselves overall.

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It comes from self-concept research on global self-worth.

Sample result, example data. Illustrative chart with invented scores; it does not describe any real respondent.

What this test is

Welcome. Self-Esteem uses 10 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess Self-Esteem.

The measure

It has 10 items, each answered on a 5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate) scale.

International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org). Source scale: Rosenberg, 1965.

At a glance

Items

Response scale

5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate)

Est. time

~1 min

Access

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What it measures

Ten statements describe overall self-regard: feeling that one is a person of worth, being satisfied with oneself, having a number of good qualities, and taking a positive attitude toward oneself, along with statements worded the other way, such as feeling useless at times or wishing one could have more respect for oneself.

Rosenberg (1965) defined self-esteem as a positive or negative attitude toward oneself as a whole, and his ten-item scale became the most widely used measure of the construct. The statements here come from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) and were keyed to parallel that scale.

The ratings are combined into a single score. Higher scores describe stronger self-acceptance and sense of worth; lower scores describe more self-doubt and self-criticism. Healthy self-esteem differs from grandiosity: it involves acceptance of oneself, not a belief in superiority.

The scale is used in research on well-being, depression and development, and in counseling. On this site, the Narcissism scale describes a grandiose self-view, the Depression scale describes low mood that often accompanies low self-esteem, and the Self-Deception scale describes an inflated self-view.

Validity evidence

Self-esteem shows robust convergent validity with life satisfaction, depression (inverse), and social confidence across hundreds of studies. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale is among the most validated self-report measures in psychology.

Example item

“Feel comfortable with myself.”

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Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.

Scoring & interpretation

Your report explains each of your scale scores in plain language.

References

Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton University Press.
Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory. Personality Psychology in Europe, 7, 7-28.

Sample report preview

The report shows your total score and where it falls across the range of possible scores, followed by a plain-language explanation of what scores in that region describe. Where the instrument has published interpretive bands, the report names the band and what it means. It closes with notes on how to read the result and on when a conversation with a qualified professional may be useful.

Report contents
Section	What it shows
Score	Your scale score, computed with the published scoring key.
Comparisons	How your scores compare with a published comparison group.

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