Ten statements about your general attitude toward yourself, your qualities, and your sense of worth. It is a self-reflection tool, not a diagnosis.
Method and research sourcesThe Rosenberg scale measures global self-esteem: a person's broadly positive or negative attitude toward themselves. It does not measure a specific skill, attractiveness, success, or human worth.
Each answer contributes 0 to 3 points. Five positively worded statements are scored directly and five negatively worded statements are reversed, then all points are summed. The possible score is 0 to 30.
We list the official scale and scoring page, the original publication, and studies of the Russian and Ukrainian language versions.
University of Maryland Department of Sociology
Morris Rosenberg
Олена Вельдбрехт, Надія Зінченко, Наталія Тавровецька
Resources and listings are selected by the self-esteem topic, not by your answers or score.
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No. The scale describes a general attitude toward oneself and is not designed to make a psychiatric or psychological diagnosis.
The official method does not set one universal diagnostic threshold for everyone. It is more useful to interpret a score in context or compare it with your own earlier result.
Five items are worded negatively. Their values are reversed so that a higher total consistently reflects a more positive attitude toward oneself.
