Research On The Relationships Between Self-concept Clarity, Self-esteem And Resilience

Self-concept clarity is one aspect of self-concept structure characteristics. Campbell defined it as the clearness, conviction, internal consistency and temporary stability that individuals perceive self-concept.Research objectives:Revising Self-concept Clarity Scale of Teenagers and providing a measurement for the research on self-concept clarity of teenagers and exploring the regulating effect that self-concept clarity has on the relationship between self-esteem and resilience.Research Significance:Developing the localization self-concept clarity scale, providing a measurement for related research. Studying the features of self-concept clarity and its relationships with self-esteem and resilience, which helps to further understand the development conditions of resilience and provides theoretical basis for adolescent’s development of resilience.This research reviews the previous studies of self-concept clarity. It revises the self-concept clarity scale through project analysis, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis and describes the characteristics of metrology. It analyzes the demographic characteristic of self-concept clarity, self-esteem and resilience. This research also studies the unique effect that self-concept clarity and self-esteem have on the two dimensions of resilience. It also analyzes the intermediary effect that self-concept has on self-esteem and resilience.The results of the study are as follows:(1) When the internal consistency of self-concept clarity reaches 0.82, the reliability of internal consistency, stability and epistemic certainty is 0.76, 0.65 and 0.72 respectively. Ideal fit index of confirmatory factor analysis (RMSEA<0.08, GFI>0.9 NFI>0.85, CFI>0.85) is that subscales show a moderate degree of positive correlation and subscales and total scales show moderate and high degree of positive correlation. The result of criterion validity shows that there exists moderate degree of positive correlation between scales and criterion (r=0.36)(2) There is no gender difference between the three dimensions of adolescent’s self-concept clarity. There is no significant age difference between stability and cognitive certainty. Internal consistency has obvious age difference.(3) Among the dimensions of adolescent’s resilience, individual power (focus, emotional control and positive cognitive) does not have obvious gender difference. Support (family support and interpersonal assistance) has significant gender difference. And there is no significant age difference between the two dimensions of resilience.(4) There is no obvious gender and age difference in adolescent’s self-esteem.(5) There is obviously positive correlation between self-concept clarity and self-esteem. Self-concept clarity and the two dimensions of resilience, including individual power and support show significant positive correlation. Self-esteem and the two dimensions of resilience, including individual power and support show significantly positive correlation.(6) In the resilience, both self-concept clarity and self-esteem have unique effects and both are able to explain the variation of individual power.(7) Self-concept clarity serves as a partial intermediary between self-esteem and resilience and the intermediate effect of self-concept clarity takes a proportion of 23.1% of the total effect. Intermediate effect shows that the variation of dependent variable is 29.5% and the intermediary effect R2med is 12.96%.Conclusion:The characteristic of psychometrics of the revised adolescent’s self-concept clarity is good, which can be used to measure the self-concept clarity of adolescents in our country. Both self-esteem and self-concept clarity have unique effects on resilience. Self-concept clarity serves as a partial intermediary between self-esteem and resilience.