ADOLESCENT PERSONALITY AND SELF-ESTEEM – AN ANALYSIS OF SELF-REPORTS AND PARENTAL-RATINGS

Abstract

This article describes the factor structure of IPIP Big-Five factor markers in self-reports and parental-ratings of a sample of adolescents in Croatia.A large sample of adolescents (N = 706) used the revised Croatian version of the 50-item IPIP Big-Five inventory to describe themselves, and they were also described by 592 of their parents on the same instrument.The adolescents also used the translated version of Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale to describe themselves and they were also described by their parents on the same measure.In separate analyses of both self--reports and parental-ratings, the IPIP measures showed clear five-factor orthogonal structures that were nearly identical to the Croatian adult structure and American structure.The relations of self-reports and the parental-ratings on IPIP Big-Five markers revealed a clear one-to-one relation between all five corresponding factors.In separate analyses of both self-reports and parental-ratings, the self-esteem measures showed a close correspondence to the factor structure of the original form and the single factor of self-esteem was highly correspondent between those two data sets.Five personality factors were moderately, however consistently, related to self-esteem.The relation between the dimension of Emotional Instability and self-esteem was the strongest while the relation of Agreeableness and self-esteem was the weakest.