Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory.
CSEI / SEI
- What it measures
- self-esteem; general self; social self; home/parents; school/academic
- Length and format
- 58 items. Forced-choice 'like me / unlike me'; School Form 58 items incl. 8-item lie scale; Adult Form 25 items; Short Form 25 items (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into numerous languages (FR, ES, AR, FA, and others), many by independent researchers
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Coopersmith, S. (1967). The Antecedents of Self-Esteem. W.H. Freeman.
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