The effect of self-verification and identity commitment on self-esteem

• Main Author: Cabuslay, Raphael
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Self-esteem; Identity; Self-evaluation; Personality tests; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2216
• Institution: De La Salle University

According to Kitano (1989), a computer search of literature revealed 6,500 article titles that explicitly use the term self-esteem and over 30,000 articles that used the term self in a hyphenated form, many of which dealt with the concept of self-esteem. This shows how widely the subject of self-esteem is used in research. There are many theories regarding self-esteem and integration between theories is needed in order to come up with a better understand self-esteem. The study focuses on freshmen students in De La Salle University. A pre-test and post-test was administered, both containing the Rosenberg scale to measure self-esteem. The pre-test showed the level of commitment to an identity, the post-test simulated self-verification. A 2-way ANOVA was used to interpret results. The study sought to find out if 1.) Self-verification affected self-esteem 2.) Self-verification did not affect self-esteem and 3.) Self-verification and identity commitment had an interaction effect.