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Self-esteem: An antecedent or a consequence of social support and psychosomatic symptoms? Cross-lagged associations in adulthood

Ulla KinnunenMarja-liisa KinnunenTaru FeldtLea Pulkkinen

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Longitudinal studySocial Psychologymedia_common.quotation_subjectSocial changeSelf-esteemErikson's stages of psychosocial developmentStructural equation modelingDevelopmental psychologyAntecedent (grammar)Social supportPersonalityPsychologyGeneral Psychologymedia_common

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Abstract This study investigated the relationships of self-esteem with social support and psychosomatic symptoms in cross-lagged longitudinal data with two measurement points and a time lag of 6 years. Two hundred thirteen participants were drawn from the ongoing Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, Finland. The present study focused on data collected by questionnaires at ages 36 and 42. The cross-lagged analyses of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicated that high self-esteem at age 36 predicted high social support 6 years later and simultaneously, but to a lesser extent, high social support at age 36 predicted high self-esteem at age 42. In addition, low levels of psychosomatic symptoms at age 36 were associated with high self-esteem 6 years later, but not vice versa.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2008-04-01Journal of Research in Personality
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2007.06.004