(Springer, 1991-08) Allgood-Merten, Betty; Stockard, Jean
While data from a sample of fourth-grade children indicate that both self-efficacy
(masculinity) and relationality (femininity) are strongly associated with
self-esteem for both girls and boys, results from a comparable sample of adolescents
aged 14-18 and a subsample of the fourth graders when they were in
twelfth grade indicate that only self-efficacy is generally associated with selfesteem.
An association between relationality and self-esteem is found in adolescents
only for a small, high-achieving, high-SES subset of "androgynous"
males.
