The Self-Esteem Scale of Toulouse (ETES) Based on the multidimentional theory of self-esteem, ETES focuses on measur-
ing self-esteem of an individual in five main areas: academic self, physical self,
emotional self, future self and social self. These five areas were developed by how
individuals perceive and accept themselves. What makes this scale special is that
it emphasizes the Emotional self, which does not receive much attention in pre-
vious scales.
ETES includes 60 items with 5-option answer like Likert scale from “com-
pletely disagree” to “completely agree”. These 60 items were distributed evenly
to 5 areas of self-esteem mentioned above. Hence, each area contains 12 items (6
positive items and 6 negative items). Specifically:
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The Emotional self refers to the representation of the control of emotions, of
impulsivity, and the self-control.
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The Social self refers to the representation that the subject has of his interac-
tions with others (parents, friends, schoolmates).
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The Academic self corresponds to the representation of the skills, perfor-
mances and behaviors of the subject in his school setting.
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The Physical self refers to the representation that the subject has of his capac-
ities, and his bodily image.
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The Future self corresponds to representations that the subject has of his fu-
ture, and of his future roles of adult.
In general, these aspects are closely related to adolescents’ life in every com-
munity because they are connected to the biological and psychological features
of this group. The assessment areas are not too fragmented and do not delve too
much into emotional life of adolescents. Hence, we decided to adapt ETES for
researching in Vietnam.
3. General Method 3.1. Sampling According to survey data of GSO
[19]
, in 2009, the adolescent population aged
10 - 19 made up 18.7% (16 million) of the total population (10 - 14 years = 8.5%
and 15 - 19 years = 10.2%). Based on these statistics of adolescents, this research
was conducted on a sample group of 1505 adolescents who are currently study-
ing in secondary and high school in all three regions of Vietnam: Hanoi (re-
presenting the North), Hue (representing the Central of Vietnam) and Ho Chi
Minh City (representing the South). We believe this number of subjects could
guarantee the margin of error allowed in order to produce the most general
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conclusions about self-esteem of Vietnamese adolescents.