A study on global self-worth of university students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the global self-worth, domain-specific self-evaluation, and domain-specific importance for university students. The self-evaluations and importance were assessed physical appearance, athletic competence, and academic competence. The results showed the global self-worth and domain-specific self-evaluations were negative, for female. And, global self-worth was negative, for first graders. The physical appearance self-evaluation was strongly related to the global self-worth. It was suggested that the influence on global self-worth of domain-specific importance was different from domain-specific self-evaluations, by gender and grade.