Low self-esteem prospectively predicts depression in the transition to young adulthood

A replication of Orth, Robins, and Roberts (2008)

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ID6205800
AuthorsSven Rieger (0000-0002-0339-0695, Institute of Education Sciences), Richard Göllner (0000-0002-9442-7616, Institute of Education Sciences), Ulrich Trautwein (0000-0003-0647-0057, Institute of Education Sciences), Brent W Roberts (0000-0002-3244-1164, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Year2016
Volume110
Issue1
Pagese16-e22
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/pspp0000037
PMID25915130
OpenAlexW2035496851
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited21

The present study is a close replication of the work of Orth, Robins, and Roberts (2008). Orth et al. (2008) tested three theoretical models of the relation between self-esteem and depression--the vulnerability model, the scar model, and the common factor model--using longitudinal, cross-lagged panel designs. The authors concluded that depression and self-esteem were not the same construct (contrary to the common-factor model), and furthermore, the results were clearly in line with the vulnerability model and not with the scar model (low self-esteem predicts subsequent levels of depression and not vice versa). In addition, the results held for both men and women. To conduct a very close replication of the work of Orth et al. (2008), we used data from another large longitudinal study (N = 2,512), which is highly similar in study design and that contains the same measures (self-esteem and depression). The present study replicated the results of the Orth et al. (2008) study in a notable manner, in regard to the comparability of the coefficients, and therefore, corroborates the vulnerability model (and not the scar- or the common-factor model)

Computer security · Depression (economics) · Developmental psychology · Longitudinal study · Replication (statistics) · Self-esteem · Statistics · Vulnerability (computing) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Mathematics · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

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