A Two-Level Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Modified Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

Autor/inn/en	Zimprich, Daniel; Perren, Sonja; Hornung, Rainer
Titel	A Two-Level Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Modified Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
Quelle	In: Educational and Psychological Measurement, 65 (2005) 3, S.465-481 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1644
DOI	10.1177/0013164404272487
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Factor Analysis; Factor Structure; Self Esteem; Individual Differences; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Faktorenanalyse; Faktorenstruktur; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Individueller Unterschied; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Classical factor analysis assumes independent and identically distributed observations. Educational data, however, are often hierarchically structured, with, for example, students being nested within classes. In this study, data on self-esteem gathered in a sample of 1,107 students within 72 school classes in Switzerland were analyzed using two-level confirmatory factor analysis. Considering a sequence of two-level confirmatory factor models, the results indicate that a one-factor model of self-esteem with an additional orthogonal method or response-style factor of negatively worded items adequately described within-class (individual) differences in self-esteem. By contrast, at the between-class level, a general factor of self-esteem was sufficient to capture school class differences in self-esteem. Thus, apart from other influences, for students, the social context (school class) seems to matter in forming their self-esteem. At the same time, the findings imply that studies examining self-esteem using samples of clustered observations should account for multiple levels of analysis (i.e., separate within- and between-class variances). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10