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The State Self-Esteem Scale is a 20-item self-report measure of state self-esteem developed by Heatherton and Polivy in 1991. It consists of three subscales designed to assess specific facets of state self-esteem, namely, performance, social, and appearance state self-esteem.
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The State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES; Heatherton and Polivy 1991) is a widely used measure of state self-esteem in psychology research. It was developed by Heatherton and Polivy as a measure of momentary self-evaluations in three distinct domains: performance, social, and appearance state self-esteem. Although people possess a typical, or baseline, level of self-esteem that characterizes their self-evaluations generally, they also report fluctuations in self-esteem around their baseline (e.g., Rosenberg 1986; Savin-Williams and Demo 1983). The stable component of self-esteem is generally referred to as trait self-esteem, whereas fluctuating, momentary self-evaluations are referred to as state...
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Jordan, C.H. (2018). State Self-Esteem Scale. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1189-1
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