Selected Polarity Determinants of Self-Esteem among Charges at Youth Detention Centers and Youth Social Therapy Centers
Selected Polarity Determinants of Self-Esteem among Charges at Youth Detention Centers and Youth Social Therapy Centers

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the socio-demographic and personality determinants/correlates of self-esteem among pupils MOW and MOS. The analysis of the level and the dimensions of self-esteem was done first (self-esteem general non-specific, global specific, partial non-specific: physical, cognitive-intellectual, characterological, socio-moral) people with conduct disorder, using the method of k-means, most often used in taxonomic practice of grouping method. In the course of analysis there were selected three groups of self-assessment, which are initially defined as: negative “reflected I” (“I am the worst”), positive “defensive I” (“I am the best”) and “I not specified – unstable” (“Who I am”), which differ in terms of the level and the internal arrangement of different types of self-assessment. Then the analysis of differences in selected clusters was conducted conditioned by a place of residence, attitude to faith, level of religiosity and attitude towards the world, one’s own life and other people.

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