Still doing fine? The interplay of negative life events and self-esteem during young adulthood.

Autor/inn/en	Tetzner, Julia; Becker, Michael; Baumert, Jürgen
Titel	Still doing fine? The interplay of negative life events and self-esteem during young adulthood.
Quelle	In: European journal of personality, 30 (2016) 1, S. 358-373 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-2070; 1099-0984
DOI	10.1002/per.2066
Schlagwörter	Längsschnittuntersuchung; Erlebnis; Selbstwertgefühl; Adoleszenz; Deutschland; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Entwicklung; Erlebnis; Negativität; Selbstwertgefühl; Wirkung; Übergang; Einflussfaktor; Entwicklung; Negativität; Wirkung; Junger Erwachsener; Deutschland
Abstract	This longitudinal study investigated the bidirectional relationship between negative life events and self-esteem during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood (N = 2272). Drawing on theories of human development over the lifespan and just-world theory, we analyzed age-graded changes in self-esteem and their interplay with negative life events at three measurement points over a 12-year period. We addressed both the short-term and the longer term effects of single as well as multiple negative life events on changes in self-esteem (socialization effects). We further investigated whether the pre-event level of self-esteem affected the likelihood of negative life events occurring (selection effects) and, finally, whether it had protective effects in terms of helping people adjust to negative events. Latent change models yielded four main findings: (i) self-esteem increased during young adulthood; (ii) socialization effects were observed over shorter and longer timespans, but (iii) selection effects were only found for multiple negative life events, with low self-esteem predicting a high number of negative life events; (iv) high pre-event self-esteem acted as a protective factor, attenuating declines in self-esteem after experience of multiple negative life events. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2017/2