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Social Sciences, Psychology, Social, Psychology, self-esteem, self-competence, self-liking, psychometric properties, reliability, validity, CFA, FIT INDEXES, ESTEEM, RELIABILITY, DIMENSIONS, TESTS, 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, Social Psychology, 5202 Biological psychology, 5205 Social and personality psychology

Abstract:

In the present study, the Self-Liking/Self-Competence Scale - Revised (Tafarodi & Swann, 2001) was translated into Dutch and psychometric properties of the questionnaire were assessed. According to Tafarodi and Swann (2001), self-esteem is composed of two dimensions, and the questionnaire was constructed specifically to tap these two dimensions of self-esteem, namely self-competence and self-liking. Based on a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), results confirmed that a two-dimensional model with the factors self-competence and self-liking provided a superior fit to the data as compared to a unidimensional model of self-esteem. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire were appropriate. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.