The Relationship between Height and Self-Esteem and the Mediating Effect of Self-Consciousness
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 130 (5), 609-617
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1990.9922952
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between height and self-esteem and examined the mediating effect of self-consciousness. Four hundred seventy-nine college students (143 male and 336 female; 75% under the age of 21) were administered the Personal Opinion Survey, which consisted of demographic information, the Rosenberg (1965) Self-Esteem Scale, and the Elkind and Bowen (1979) Imaginary Audience Scale. Findings indicated a nonlinear relationship between height and self-esteem. Further, self-consciousness emerged as a significant mediator of the relationship between height and self-esteem, accounting for the bulk of the difference in male and female self-esteem scores.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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