Home Self Esteem

Abstract

The Home Self Esteem scale is a 10-item instrument designed to measure an individual’s self-evaluation specifically within the familial context. This subscale is typically administered as part of the broader Self-esteem measures developed by Bruce R. Hare, focusing on how children or adolescents perceive their worth, importance, and acceptance within their immediate home environment. The scale uses a four-point Likert scale response format to quantify feelings of parental pride, dependability, and belonging. The instrument is highly reliable and is frequently employed in research and evaluation of youth development programs.

Keywords

Home Self Esteem, Hare Self-Esteem Scale, Self-esteem, Family relationships, Adolescent self-concept, Child assessment, Parental acceptance, Psychometrics, Self-evaluation.

Authors

Bruce R. Hare (B.R. Hare)

[quads id=5]

Purpose

The primary purpose of the Home Self Esteem subscale is to provide a focused assessment of an individual’s self-concept as it relates specifically to their interactions and status within their family unit. Unlike global measures of self-esteem, this instrument isolates the impact of parental acceptance, expectations, and perceived importance at home.

This measurement is crucial for researchers and practitioners involved in Child and Youth Programs, as the home environment is a critical determinant of psychological well-being. The scale helps identify youth who may be experiencing feelings of rejection or low worth stemming from familial dynamics, thereby guiding targeted intervention strategies.

Construct

The scale measures the construct of Contextual Self-Esteem, specifically focusing on the home domain. It assesses the degree to which an individual feels valued, understood, and respected by their parents or primary caregivers. Key dimensions explored include perceived parental approval, the feeling of being an important family member, and the belief in future success as endorsed by parents.

The items address both positive indicators (e.g., parents are proud, parents try to understand) and negative indicators (e.g., feeling unwanted, wishing to be born into another family), providing a comprehensive reflection of the individual’s subjective self-evaluation of their standing within the family system. The core psychological construct being measured is the internalized perception of familial worth.

Validity

While specific detailed validity data (e.g., construct validity, concurrent validity) for the Home Self Esteem subscale are not provided in the primary source excerpt, the scale is derived from the established Hare Self-Esteem Scale. Validation studies for the parent instrument typically demonstrate strong theoretical alignment with established measures of self-concept and internal consistency across different domains (e.g., Peer, School, Home).

Its consistent use in evaluating outcomes in Child and Youth Programs implies accepted face and content validity within the youth development field, suggesting that the items accurately represent the core components of familial self-worth in children and adolescents.

Reliability

The instrument demonstrates strong statistical Reliability. According to published assessments, the internal consistency, measured using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, ranges between .78 and .92 for both the individual subscales (including Home Self Esteem) and the total scale score. This range indicates excellent to very good reliability, confirming that the items within the scale consistently measure the same underlying construct across various administrations.

Factor Analysis

The structure of the scale, being a distinct 10-item subscale within a multi-dimensional instrument (the Hare Self-Esteem Scale), suggests that factor analysis supports the separation of self-esteem into specific, measurable domains (Home, Peer, School). Factor analytic studies typically confirm that the 10 items load significantly onto a single factor representing Home Self Esteem, distinct from factors related to other social contexts like school or peers. This confirms the intended unidimensionality of the measure within the home domain.

Instrument

Test Type: Self-Report Questionnaire

Format: 10 items utilizing a 4-point Likert scale response format.

Language Available: English (Primary language of publication)

Population Group: Children and Adolescents

Age Group: Typically utilized with school-age children and youth.

Population Details: Used extensively in educational and community-based settings, particularly within research assessing the effectiveness of Child and Youth Programs.

Test Methodology: Respondents select one of four options: 4= Strongly agree, 3=Agree, 2= Disagree, 1= Strongly disagree. Items 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 must be reverse scored. The final score is the sum of the 10 items, where a higher total score indicates a higher level of home self-esteem.

Keywords

Familial acceptance, Self-concept, Parental expectations, Assessment instrument, Psychological measurement, Reliability, Clinical practice measures, Contextual self-esteem.

[quads id=5]

Authors

Author ORCID Identifier: Not specified.

Affiliation Email addresses: Not specified.

Correspondence Address: Not specified.

Permissions & Fee and Test Year

The scale was published in its cited form in 2000 as part of the third edition of the reference manual, Measure for clinical practice. For specific usage rights and permissions, researchers should consult the primary publisher, Free Press, or the author, Bruce R. Hare. The instrument is also featured in the handbook, Assessing Outcomes in Child and Youth Programs: A Practical Handbook (2005), which provides implementation guidelines.

The original PDF of the handbook where this instrument is featured can be downloaded here: http://4h.uwex.edu/evaluation/documents/ChildYouthOutcomeHandbook2005.pdf

Reference’s

Hare, B.R. (2000). Hare self-esteem scale. In K. Corcoran & J. Fischer (Eds.), Measure for clinical practice, Volume I, 3rd edition, New York: Free Press.

The scale items are referenced in: Assessing Outcomes in Child and Youth Programs: A Practical Handbook (2005), pages 87-88. Further context is available online at: http://fyi.uwex.edu/topic/youth/

[quads id=5]

Items of the Home Self Esteem

IMPORTANT: The following scale items must be preserved in their original language and must not be changed in any way.

1. My parents are proud of thekind of person I am.

2. No one pays much attention tome at home.

3. My parents feel that I can bedepended on.

4. I often feel that if they could‚my parents would trade me in for another child.

5. My parents try to understand me.

6. My parents expect too much of me.

7. I am an important person to my family.

8. I often feel unwanted at home.

9. My parents believe that I will be a success in the future.

10. I often wish that I had been born into another family..