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Relationship between Self-Esteem and Depression

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129 males and females enrolled in introductory educational psychology participated in the study to determine the relationship between self-esteem and depression in college students. Each subject was administered a self-esteem checklist and a scale intended to measure depression on one occasion. The correlation between self-esteem and depression for the total group was .55; the value for males was .53, foe females .56.

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