Abstract

CATANO TORO, David; RESTREPO, Samuel alberto; PORTILLA, Nicolás david  and  RAMIREZ, Héctor david. SELF STEEM AMONG YOUTH A SCALE VALIDATE. Investig. andina [online]. 2008, vol.10, n.16, pp.57-66. ISSN 0124-8146.

Self-estem is the way in which each person is valued and therefore confdent in itself why its significance is crucial in making decisions of each individual, like the decision to become pregnant at a specific age. This study seeks to validate a test to assess adolescent self-esteem. Metodology: We performed a literature review and decided to make a cultural validation of the test area-Specific Self Steem Scale, edited by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia1, which was divided into two parts, identifed a high level and a low level of self-esteem respectively. The test was introduced adapted to a college education mean Alcalá town of 16000 people in the coffee region of Colombia, from the northern Valle del Cauca. The results were analyzed by STATA 10. The outcome: The test identification of high self-esteem has a high reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = 0,737) and the test has a low self-esteem reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.82). The test has a high self-esteem predictive capability of 0,709 and low self-esteem had a predictive ability approaching 100%. The outcomes to test high esteem sensitivity of 96.61% and a specificity approaching 100%. The definition of a good self-esteem, they would be properly classifed the 98.45%. Conclusion: Them we could say that this study validates the test of high and low self-esteem as a useful tool for measuring the level of self-esteem of a population whose results serve as a baseline for measurement and subsequent interventions that seek to improve work in high-risk behavior among adolescents.

Keywords : Self-estem; Self-estem tests; teen pregnancy.

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