The Role of Self-Perceived Usefulness and Competence in the Self-Esteem of Elderly Adults: Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Bachman Revision of Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale

This article reports on a confirmatory analytic study of the Bachman revision (1970) of Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (1965) that was used in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA). Participants comprised 1,087 elderly people aged between 70 and 103 years (mean 77 years). Five compe...

Ausführliche Beschreibung