of narcissism have underlying (and perhaps unacknowledged) sets of concerns about their levels of self-worth.
Likewise, ‘good’ implicit measures could help researcher s better understand the psychological correlates of
potential discrepancies and interac tions between explicit and implicit self-esteem. On a purely practical level,
implicit measures may help researchers address concern s with response biases with e xplicit self-report mea-
sures of self-esteem.
It might be reasonable to ask whether there is a need for another survey-based measure of self-esteem.
One possibility might be to create a single inventory that has a global scale and taps the major domains of life
such as physical appearance, achievement contexts (school and work), and relationships (parents, friends, roman-
tic partners) using the same set of items and response formats for all ages. Such a standardized inventory could
facilitate more life-span research into self-esteem and the self-concept because it would be straightforward to test
measurement invariance and there would be no need to adopt different forms for different ages. Such a measure
could help address issues such as when during human development a global sense of the self first emerges.
We have started such an effort and we refer interested readers to our website for more details: www.selflab.org/
lse(Retrieved January 7, 2014).
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