Assessment of Self-Esteem and Wellness in Health Promotion Professionals

Abstract

When researchers tested 90 wellness professionals attending the National Wellness Conference using the Adult Form of Coopersmith's Self-esteem Inventory and TestWell, participants scored above the norm on self-esteem and over-all wellness and on the subscales of Sexuality and Emotional Awareness, Safety, and Emotional Management. In addition, TestWell, a revised wellness inventory, showed internal reliability (alpha) of .84.

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