CFSEI-3

Features and benefits

• Includes three age-appropriate forms: Primary (ages 6-8 years), Intermediate (ages 9-12 years), and Adolescent (ages 13-18 years). All three forms of the inventory provide a Global Self-Esteem Quotient (GSEQ). The Intermediate and Adolescent Forms provide self-esteem scores in four areas: Academic, General, Parental/Home, and Social. The Adolescent Form provides an additional self-esteem score: Personal Self-Esteem. A defensive measure also is provided to assess the extent to which an individual's responses are guarded.
• Easy to administer and score. It can be administered to individuals or groups in 15-20 minutes. Responses (simple yes-or-no answers) can be either written or spoken. Newly designed Profile/Scoring Forms are easy to use.
• Standardized on a sample of 1,727 individuals from 17 states; the normative group was stratified on the basis of geographic region, gender, race, rural or urban residence, ethnicity, family income, parent education, and disability.
• Highly reliable (average internal consistency coefficients range from .81 to .93; time sampling coefficients range from .72 to .98). Correlates strongly with other measures of self-esteem and self-concept.
• Assesses self-esteem in a culturally fair manner. (A full chapter in the CFSEI-3 Manual is devoted to the test's bias.)