For example, the mean anxiety, depression and self esteem scores for women aged 16 25 in the cohort were 8.14, 3.63 and 7.46 respectively.
Any self-esteem score below 3.0 is considered low.
Rosenberg self-esteem score was assessed with four of the 10 items introduced by Rosenberg [ 23].
The mean state self-esteem score of the total patient group was 78.2 (SD = 10.3, range scores = 46-98, N = 104).
Items are scored 1 4 in the direction of negative self-esteem, and scores are summed to give a total self-esteem score ranging from 10 to 40.
The Rosenberg self-esteem score increased by a mean of 2.22 points at 6 months compared to the pre-mentoring survey (p = 0.002) and by a mean of 2.62 points at 1 year (p < 0.001).
Responses were coded on a 0 3 scale giving a range for total self-esteem score of 0, representing the lowest level of self-esteem, and 30, the highest level of self-esteem.
The differences in mean total RSE self-esteem score of 32 for the 6 patients who had a remaining LLI of more than 2 cm and of 35 for the 31 patients who had a remaining LLI of less than 2 cm did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.3).
Based on the literature [ 31], the independent variables were entered in five different blocks, thus: Step 1: background socio-demographics; step 2: the quality of parental emotional relationship, difficulty with studies and difficulty with social relationships; step 3: self-esteem score; step 4: anxiety score; and step 5: depression score.
"But it is no longer the case: the data series shows a peak in the percentage of year 10 females [aged 14-15] scoring in the highest bracket of self-esteem scores in 2007, but the figures in that group have since declined".
"We calculated self-esteem scores from 1976 all the way up to 2006," said Brent Donnellan, a psychologist at Michigan State University, referring to his and colleagues' 2010 study using data from an annual national survey of high school students called Monitoring the Future, "and we didn't see much difference at all".
