Life-span development of self-esteem and its effects on important life outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uli Orth (0000-0002-4795-515X, University of Basel), Richard W Robins (0000-0002-5088-3484), Keith F Widaman (0000-0002-6424-3998) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1271-1288 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0025558 |
| PMID | 21942279 |
| OpenAlex | W2159649693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 234 |
| References cited | 102 |
We examined the life-span development of self-esteem and tested whether self-esteem influences the development of important life outcomes, including relationship satisfaction, job satisfaction, occupational status, salary, positive and negative affect, depression, and physical health. Data came from the Longitudinal Study of Generations. Analyses were based on 5 assessments across a 12-year period of a sample of 1,824 individuals ages 16 to 97 years. First, growth curve analyses indicated that self-esteem increases from adolescence to middle adulthood, reaches a peak at about age 50 years, and then decreases in old age. Second, cross-lagged regression analyses indicated that self-esteem is best modeled as a cause rather than a consequence of life outcomes. Third, growth curve analyses, with self-esteem as a time-varying covariate, suggested that self-esteem has medium-sized effects on life-span trajectories of affect and depression, small to medium-sized effects on trajectories of relationship and job satisfaction, a very small effect on the trajectory of health, and no effect on the trajectory of occupational status. These findings replicated across 4 generations of participants--children, parents, grandparents, and their great-grandparents. Together, the results suggest that self-esteem has a significant prospective impact on real-world life experiences and that high and low self-esteem are not mere epiphenomena of success and failure in important life domains
Affect (linguistics) · Developmental psychology · Grandparent · Latent growth modeling · Life satisfaction · Life span · Self-esteem · Aging and Gerontology Research · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 234 |
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| Citations per year | 15,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
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| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 204 |