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Morris Rosenberg

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Morris Rosenberg · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Sociologist who created the widely used self-esteem scale

When

1922, USA — 1992, USA

Where

United States (Cornell · University of Maryland)

Biography

Morris Rosenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Sociologist who created the widely used self-esteem scale

How & why

Rosenberg created the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, a concise ten-item questionnaire introduced in his 1965 book Society and the Adolescent Self-Image, which became the most widely used measure of global self-worth in the social sciences. His empirical work established self-concept as a rigorous, measurable field of sociological and psychological research. He is listed among Jewish sociologists in Jewish biographical references (Jinfo).

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Sociologist who created the widely used self-esteem scale

1922

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology