| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === This study aims to examine the prediction of self-esteem from objective and social comparison variables in adolescents. The main five purposes of this study are: (1) to explore to what extent the objective measures of academic achievement, appearance evaluation and peer relationship can predict self-esteem in adolescents; (2) to explore how academic achievement, appearance evaluation and peer relationship as measured in terms of social comparison can predict self-esteem in adolescents; (3) to examine how family factor in terms of social comparison can predict self-esteem in adolescents; (4) to examine the increase in predictive power after the family factor is added to the individual social comparison factors; (5) to determine the relative predictive powers of objective and social comparison variables on self-esteem.
The present study used questionnaire method to collect data. Five measures were adopted, including Adolescents Social-Comparison Scale, Appearance Evaluation Scale, Peer Relationship Scale, the Family-of-Origin Glory and Shame Scale, and Self-Esteem Scale. The participants were 178 second-grade and third-grade junior high school students from three schools in Taoyuan County, Taipei City and Changhua County. The data obtained in this study were analyzed by factor analysis, Pearson correlation, hierarchical regression, multiple regression analysis, and descriptive statistics.
In this study, the three measures of the objective performances are academic achievement, appearance evaluation and peer relationship. The four measures of social comparison are academic achievement, appearance evaluation, peer relationship and family. The study is to investigate the prediction of adolescents’ self-esteem from these measures. The results of this study are as follows:
1.The 3 objective variables, academic achievement, appearance evaluation and peer relationship have predictive powers on self-esteem.
2.The 3 social comparison variables, academic achievement, appearance evaluation, peer relationship and family have predictive powers on self-esteem.
3.The prediction of self-esteem made by individual social comparison factors can be enhanced with the addition of the family social comparison factor.
4.Among the 7 variables, the social comparisons of appearance evaluation, peer relationship and family have the highest predictive power on self-esteem.
5.The social comparison variables have higher predictive power on self-esteem than objective variables.
Based on the findings, several suggestions are also proposed for the guidance and counseling of adolescent students.
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