Inferring a child's level of self-esteem from a knowledge of other personality factors

Two hundred and six school-age children completed Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI) (Coopersmith, 1967, 1984) and the Children's Personality Questionnaire (CPQ) (Porter & Cattell, 1979). Correlation and regression analysis confirmed that there is a high degree of shared variance between these measures, suggesting that self-esteem may be more integrated within an individual's total personality functioning than has been discussed in the literature. The psychometric implications of this finding are discussed.