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Through a glass, less darkly? Reassessing convergent and divergent validity in measures of implicit self-esteem

Through a glass, less darkly? Reassessing convergent and divergent validity in measures of implicit self-esteem
Through a glass, less darkly? Reassessing convergent and divergent validity in measures of implicit self-esteem
Self-esteem has been traditionally assessed via self-report (explicit self-esteem: ESE). However, the limitations of self-report have prompted efforts to assess self-esteem indirectly (implicit self-esteem: ISE). It has been theorized that ISE and ESE reflect the operation of largely distinct mental systems. However, although low correlations between measures of ISE and ESE empirically support their discriminant validity, similarly low correlations between different measures of ISE do not support their convergent validity. We explored whether such patterns would reemerge if more recently developed, specific, and reliable ISE measures were used. They did, although some convergent validity among ISE measures emerged once confounds resulting from conceptual mismatch, individual differences, and random variability were minimized. Nonetheless, low correlations among ISE measures are not primarily caused by the usual psychometric suspects, and may be the result of other factors including subtle differences between structural features of such measures.
implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem, implicit association test, extrinsic affective simon task, single category implicit association test, go/no-go association task
1015-5759
273-281
Rudolph, Almut
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Schröder-Abé, Michela
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Schütz, Astrid
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Gregg, Aiden P.
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Schütz, Astrid
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Gregg, Aiden P.
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Rudolph, Almut, Schröder-Abé, Michela, Schütz, Astrid, Gregg, Aiden P. and Sedikides, Constantine (2008) Through a glass, less darkly? Reassessing convergent and divergent validity in measures of implicit self-esteem. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 24 (4), 273-281. (doi:10.1027/1015-5759.24.4.273).

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Self-esteem has been traditionally assessed via self-report (explicit self-esteem: ESE). However, the limitations of self-report have prompted efforts to assess self-esteem indirectly (implicit self-esteem: ISE). It has been theorized that ISE and ESE reflect the operation of largely distinct mental systems. However, although low correlations between measures of ISE and ESE empirically support their discriminant validity, similarly low correlations between different measures of ISE do not support their convergent validity. We explored whether such patterns would reemerge if more recently developed, specific, and reliable ISE measures were used. They did, although some convergent validity among ISE measures emerged once confounds resulting from conceptual mismatch, individual differences, and random variability were minimized. Nonetheless, low correlations among ISE measures are not primarily caused by the usual psychometric suspects, and may be the result of other factors including subtle differences between structural features of such measures.

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Published date: 2008
Keywords: implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem, implicit association test, extrinsic affective simon task, single category implicit association test, go/no-go association task

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Local EPrints ID: 63802
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/63802
ISSN: 1015-5759
PURE UUID: 97ea4e12-6b24-4565-a840-260092790838
ORCID for Constantine Sedikides: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-889X

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Date deposited: 05 Nov 2008
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:08

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Author: Almut Rudolph
Author: Michela Schröder-Abé
Author: Astrid Schütz
Author: Aiden P. Gregg

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