The Development of a Self-Esteem Scale for Children in Pakistan

Self-esteem is generally construe as an evaluation of one's selfworth; its manifestation however, tend to vary considerably in different cultures. this study attempts to develop a scale for the assessment of self-esteem among school children in pakistan. a list of 44 items of self-esteem was presented as a self report measure self-esteem scale for children, (sesc) to 346 children of 13-15 years old (48% boys and 52% girls) along with rifai self-esteem scale (rifai, 1999). factor analysis revealed three positive domains of sesc namely; academic, self confidence, social, and a negative one named low self-esteem. the psychometric properties of sesc were found to be satisfactory. the findings are discussed in terms of the structure of the self-esteem within the cultural context. implications for theoretical construct of this research were also discussed.