A comparison of relationship between self esteem and vulnerability to depression among high school and freshmen university students

摘要

This study aims to identify the differences in relationship between self esteem and vulnerability to depression in two stressful conditions: learning under pressure of an important final examination in high school and learning under pressure of new academic life in the first year of university. Participants in this study were 200 students, aged 17 to 21 years (M = 18,94, SD = 1,46), 49 male and 151 female, 100 high school students and 100 freshmen at a public faculty in Bucharest, Romania Data were collected with the Attitudes toward Self Scale (Carver & Ganellen, 1983) and with the Self esteem scale (Rosenberg, 1965). The counseling programs aiming to foster 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.