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8 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 1 (1971)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd8 and id is 1 raw text is: The Application of Self-Esteem Measures in A Correctional Setting: 1. Reliability of the Scale and Relationship to Other Measures LAWRENCE A. BENNETT Chief, Research Division, California Department of Corrections Ph.D., (Psychology) 1968, Claremont Graduate School, California DONALD E. SORENSEN Senior Psychologist, California Medical Facility, Reception-Guidance Center, Department of Corrections, Vacaville M. S., (Psychology), 1951, University of Illinois HORACE FORSHAY Supervisor, Vocational Testing and Counseling, California Medical Facility, Reception-Guidance Center, Department of Corrections M. Ed., (Vocational Counseling), 1948, University of Miami Recently Coopersmith' related subjective self-esteem of a group of adolescents to social and family antecedents. Self-esteem has been viewed as an important personality variable in postinstitu- tional adjustment of former inmates. The applicability of a modi- fication of Coopersmith's scale, the Self-Esteem Inventory (SEl), to prison inmates was explored. The distribution found was more nearly normal than clinical predictions for this population would suggest. Reliability measures were computed and found to be satisfactory. Further, the scale has a low relationship with age, intelligence, and socioeconomic status. A moderate relationship to tested grade level was found (p < .05, while the relationship to claimed level of achievement reached statistical significance (p < .01). In general, the scale was seen as an adequate tool for further study in the correctional field. Most clinicians working in the cor- rectional setting would agree that self-esteem is a crucial aspect of the personality of the offender, some- times playing an important role in his being involved in unlawful be- havior, often being markedly modi- fied by incarceration and possibly related to failure on parole following institutionalization. The mere pro- cess of entering the society of the in- 1 carcerated is demoralizing.s When this is coupled with the realization that commitment to a correctional facility represents the sy mbolic equivalent to being ostracized from the tribal community, the loss of a IS. Coopersmith, The Antecedent of Self- Esteem, (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1967). 2E. Goffman, Asylums, (New York: Double- day, 1961).

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