The school short form of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory is a widely used measure of children's global self-esteem. Unlike the full-length scale, however, it has been generally understood that the short form does not allow differentiation between the major individual sources of self-esteem. The present study has examined the internal structure of the school short form by exploratory and confirmatory analysis on data provided by 3,056 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 15 years and has demonstrated that after the removal of 6 redundant items, the newly revised scale not only possesses improved psychometric properties but also contains three clear factors that correspond to personal self-esteem and self-esteem derived from parents and peers, respectively. The presentation of a revised version of the school short form of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory that is psychometrically robust and demonstrates three clear subscales will allow clearer distinctions to be made among the sources of children's self-esteem in future studies. RésuméLa version abrégée, pour le milieu scolaire, de l'Inventaire d'estime de soi de Coopersmith est grandement utilisée pour mesurer l'estime de soi globale chez les jeunes. On croit généralement que cette version ne permet pas de différencier entre les principales sources d'estime de soi, contrairement à ce qu'on obtient de la version complète. La présente étude porte sur l'examen de la structure de la version abrégée, au moyen d'analyses exploratoires et confirmatoires sur des données provenant de 3 056 adolescents, âgés de 13 à 15 ans. Or, il appert que la nouvelle échelle révisée, si on at Bobst Library, New York University on April 11, 2015 cjs.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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