SelfEsteem Development From Age 14 to 30 Years（自尊发展从14岁到30年）.pdf

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology © 2011 American Psychological Association 2011, Vol. 101, No. 3, 607–619 0022-3514/11/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0024299 Self-Esteem Development From Age 14 to 30 Years: A Longitudinal Study Ruth Yasemin Erol and Ulrich Orth University of Basel We examined the development of self-esteem in adolescence and young adulthood. Data came from the Young Adults section of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which includes 8 assessments across a 14-year period of a national probability sample of 7,100 individuals age 14 to 30 years. Latent growth curve analyses indicated that self-esteem increases during adolescence and continues to increase more slowly in young adulthood. Women and men did not differ in their self-esteem trajectories. In adoles- cence, Hispanics had lower self-esteem than Blacks and Whites, but the self-esteem of Hispanics subsequently increased more strongly, so that at age 30 Blacks and Hispanics had higher self-esteem than Whites. At each age, emotionally stable, extraverted, and conscientious individuals experienced higher self-esteem than emotionally unstable, introverted, and less conscientious individuals. Moreover, at each age, high sense of mastery, low risk taking, and better health predicted higher self-esteem. Finally, the results suggest that normative increase