State Self-Esteem Scale.
SSES
- What it measures
- state self-esteem; performance self-esteem; social self-esteem; appearance self-esteem
- Length and format
- 20 items. 5-point Likert (not at all to extremely); 3 subscales (Performance 7, Social 7, Appearance 6) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated in several languages incl. German, French, Spanish, Chinese
- 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
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Heatherton, T. F., & Polivy, J. (1991). Development and validation of a scale for measuring state self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60(6), 895-910.
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