Self-esteem assessment
Understand your self-esteem
2,782 people in the United States, mostly college students, answered the same 10 statements for a study published in 2005, and your score is compared with that U.S. average.
Answer 10 statements about how you regard yourself, then see what tends to raise or lower self-esteem. Learn how your score tends to move over the years, how steady it usually is, and where it shows at work and in close relationships.
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Below is a list of statements dealing with your general feelings about yourself.
Statement 1: I feel that I’m a person of worth, at least on an equal plane with others.
Statement 2: I feel that I have a number of good qualities.
Statement 3: All in all, I am inclined to feel that I am a failure.
Statement 4: I am able to do things as well as most other people.
Statement 5: I feel I do not have much to be proud of.
Statement 6: I take a positive attitude toward myself.
Statement 7: On the whole, I am satisfied with myself.
Statement 8: I wish I could have more respect for myself.
Statement 9: I certainly feel useless at times.
Statement 10: At times I think I am no good at all.
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The 10 statements, their answer choices and their scoring are the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965), used word for word. The University of Maryland’s Department of Sociology says the scale “is now in the public domain.” · Credits and licenses
What decades of research reveal
These findings from published research on self-esteem describe patterns across large groups, not predictions about what will happen to any one person.
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Average self-esteem rose through adulthood and peaked later
Self-esteem increased strongly until about 30, then at a slower pace until its highest point around 60, across 331 samples following 164,868 people aged 4 to 94.
Orth, Erol & Luciano (2018). Psychological Bulletin 144(10), 1045–1080.
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Relative standing stayed fairly steady over years
Self-esteem was not fixed, but a person’s position compared with other people tended to remain stable across the long term.
Trzesniewski, Donnellan & Robins (2003). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 84(1), 205–220.
What does it measure?
Self-esteem here means your overall sense of your own worth as a person, not how capable you feel in one particular area. The 10 statements ask about positive views of yourself and the times you are harder on yourself.
Your sense of worth
These five statements ask about your good qualities, your ability to do things as well as others, your positive attitude, and satisfaction with yourself. Agreeing with them raises your score.
When you are hard on yourself
These five statements ask about moments when you see yourself harshly. They are scored in reverse, so disagreeing with them raises your score.
What does this assessment cover?
10 statements
All statements appear on one screen, rated from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree
10–40 score range
Each answer is worth 1 to 4 points, with self-critical statements reversed
16,998 people in 53 countries
Answered these same 10 statements for a study published in 2005
2,782 people in the U.S.
From the same 2005 study, mostly college students
This is sociologist Morris Rosenberg’s 1965 scale, used word for word. It is one of the most widely used measures of self-esteem, and the University of Maryland says the scale is now in the public domain. You answer 10 statements in one step, choosing from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.
Each answer is worth 1 to 4 points, giving you a score from 10 to 40. Your score is compared with 2,782 people in the United States, mostly college students, who answered the same statements in a 2005 study. It describes how you see yourself in this set of answers, not a diagnosis.
Why take it here?
What raises or lowers it
The report looks at what tends to raise and lower self-esteem, from the home you grew up in to the relationships you have now. It puts your result in context.
Work and close ties
The report describes how self-esteem shows at work and with the people closest to you, then considers how steady it usually is across a life.
Free all the way through
The assessment, result, and full report are free, with nothing held back and nothing to buy. This is the one report on the site given away whole.
Common questions
Can this assessment diagnose anything?
No. It describes how you answered 10 statements about how you see yourself on one day. It is not a diagnosis, has no cut-off, and does not identify a health problem.
Where do the statements come from?
They come from sociologist Morris Rosenberg’s 1965 scale and are used word for word. The University of Maryland, which keeps the scale, says it is now in the public domain. The comparison figures come from Schmitt and Allik’s 2005 study in 53 countries.
Why are some statements so negative?
Rosenberg wrote half the statements positively and half negatively, so agreeing with every statement does not produce a high score by accident. The negative statements are scored in reverse. Answer them like the rest.
What happens to my answers?
We keep your personal information private and never sell it, while anything that identifies you goes only to the companies needed to run the site and take a payment. To delete your account and everything saved in it, email us at hello@nomigram.com from the account’s own address.
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