%0 Journal Article
%T Study on global self-esteem predictors in elementary school children. Differences according to sex and age
%A Molina
%A Mar¨ªa Fernanda
%A Raimundi
%A Mar¨ªa Julia
%J Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento
%D 2011
%I Universidad de C¨®rdoba
%X The perception of the value of themselves as individuals is a very important outcome in childhood. The aim of this paper is to study the influence of specific domain self-perception on the self-esteem of school age children from Buenos Aires City/AR (CABA). The Self-Perception Profile for Children was administered to 219 children of both genders (mean age = 10.34; SD = 1.77) from a private school from CABA. Multiple lineal regression analysis were performed. School grade and sex differences were taken into account. The main predictor of self-esteem for the boys is the self-perception of physical appearance and for the girls the self-perception of social acceptance. Considering grade differences, the main predictor of self-esteem for children from third to fifth grade is the self-perception of physical appearance and for sixth and seventh graders the self-perception of social acceptance and behavior.
%K Global Self-esteem
%K Predictors
%K Self-perceptions
%K Children
%U http://www.psyche.unc.edu.ar/racc/index.php/comportamiento/article/view/102/Molina3