Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2017, 5, 114-125
http://www.scirp.org/journal/jss
ISSN Online: 2327-5960
ISSN Print: 2327-5952
DOI:
10.4236/jss.2017.51010
January 16, 2017
Development and Validation of the Self-Esteem
Scale of Toulouse (ETES) in Vietnam
Trinh Thi Linh
*
, Tran Thu Huong, Ngo Mai Trang
Faculty of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University (VNU-Hanoi),
Hanoi, Vietnam
Abstract
Self-esteem is no longer a new concept in the field
of psychology in the whole
world in general as well as in Vietnam in particular. There is a rich diversity of
self-esteem measurement tools that have been devised and developed. How-
ever, in Vietnam, most of the researchers only use
the original measurement
tools without adapting them to the cultural-social context of Vietnam. Hence,
this research aims to evaluate the construction and reliability of an existing
popular measurement tool of self-esteem in Europe—which is ETES—in the
context of Vietnamese culture. An empirical study was conducted in Vietnam
and 1505 valid responses of adolescents were collected. Five sub-scales—
which
are physical self,
emotional self,
academic-future self,
social self and
familial self—were identified through an exploratory factor analysis. The last
dimension (familial self) is considered a typical self-esteem area of Vietnam-
ese adolescents. The test-retest reliability demonstrates strong reproducibility
of the self-esteem scale and subscales. This new tool is useful for examining
how often adolescents in Vietnam evaluate their self-esteem.
Keywords
Self-Esteem, The Self-Esteem Scale of Toulouse (ETES), Adolescent, Vietnam
