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The role of self-perceived usefulness and competence in the self-esteem of elderly adults — confirmatory factor analyses of the Bachman revision of Rosenberg's self-esteem scale
Author(s)	Rob Ranzijn, John Keeves, Mary Luszcz
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 2, March 1998
Pages	pp P96-P104
Keywords	Self esteem ; Well being ; Over 70s ; Australia.
Annotation	This article reports on a confirmatory analytic study of the Bachman revision (1970) of Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale (1965) that was used in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA). Participants comprised 1,087 older people aged between 70 and 103 years. Five competing factor models were tested with LISREL8. The best-fitting model was a nested one, with a General Self-esteem second-order factor and two first-order factors, Positive Self-regard and Usefulness/Competence. This model was validated with data from a later wave of ALSA. Preliminary results indicate that usefulness/competence may be an important predictor of well-being. The article concludes that further work is required on the relationships among usefulness, competence, self-esteem, and well-being in older people. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980602403 A
Classmark	DPA: D:F:5HH: BBK: 7YA
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