- Title
- A comparison of the self-esteem of black and white high school pupils
- Creator
- Morrow, Brian Robert
- ThesisAdvisor
- Edwards, D J A
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Date
- 1988
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193033
- Identifier
- vital:45292
- Description
- This study investigated the level of self-esteem of black and white high-school students using the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. One hundred and eighty six subjects were used, 63 of them being white while 118 were black. A validation of the Rosenberg scale for the black sample was attempted using a correlation between the scale score and a rating of the subjects by teachers. The results of the study showed no significant difference between the self-esteem levels, while the validation study failed to confirm the validity of the test for black subjects in South Africa. However, the validation study v/as rejected as inconclusive and the results of the comparison accepted as confirmatory of previous research. An incidental positive finding revealed that white males have higher self-esteem than white females,. The theory and past research of self-esteem comparisons between racial groups is reviewed. The conclusion is reached in this study that the concept of self-esteem has outlasted its usefulness in the field of comparisons between racial groups and research of a qualitative nature .can provide further data for the understanding of differences between racial groups.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1988
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (83 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Psychology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Morrow, Brian Robert
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rights
- Open Access
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