School Life and Adolescents' Self‐Esteem Trajectories

• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12089
• Publication Date: 2013-03-28T16:15:47Z
• Authors: Alexandre J. S. M...; Christophe Maïano; Herbert W. Marsh; Benjamin Nagengast; Michel Janosz
• Keywords: Trait; Latent growth modeling

This study investigates heterogeneity in adolescents' trajectories of global self‐esteem ( GSE ) and the relations between these facets interpersonal, organizational, instructional components students' school life. Methodologically, this illustrates use growth mixture analyses, how to obtain proper student‐level effects when there are multiple schools, but not enough support multilevel analyses. is based on a 4‐year, six‐measurement‐point, follow‐up 1,008 adolescents M age = 12.6 years, SD 0.6 at Time 1.) The results show four latent classes presenting elevated, moderate, increasing, low defined levels fluctuations. that becomes trait‐like as it increases life effects, moderated by gender, played an important role predicting membership trajectories.