Stalking the Perfect Measure of Implicit Self-Esteem: The Blind Men and the Elephant Revisited?

Recent interest in the implicit self-esteem construct has led to the creation and use of several new assessment tools whose psychometric properties have not been fully explored. In this article, the authors investigated the reliability and validity of seven implicit self-esteem measures. The differe...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 2000-10, Vol.79 (4), p.631-643
Main Authors: Bosson, Jennifer K, Swann, William B, Pennebaker, James W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Emotions
Experimental psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Human behaviour
Humans
Male
Personality
Personality. Affectivity
Predictive Value of Tests
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Self Concept
Self esteem
Self image
Social cognition
Social psychology
Test Reliability
Test Validity
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Summary:Recent interest in the implicit self-esteem construct has led to the creation and use of several new assessment tools whose psychometric properties have not been fully explored. In this article, the authors investigated the reliability and validity of seven implicit self-esteem measures. The different implicit measures did not correlate with each other, and they correlated only weakly with measures of explicit self-esteem. Only some of the implicit measures demonstrated good test-retest reliabilities, and overall, the implicit measures were limited in their ability to predict our criterion variables. Finally, there was some evidence that implicit self-esteem measures are sensitive to context. The implications of these findings for the future of implicit self-esteem research are discussed.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.79.4.631