Description of the Scale

The PATEM II scale is a bundle of six psychometric subscales designed to assess self-esteem and five specific domains of self-perception. The self-esteem scale evaluates the degree to which a student is generally satisfied with themselves and with their life overall.

Purpose of the Scale

The PATEM II scale comprises six psychometric subscales created to evaluate self-esteem and five key domains of self-perception. The main goal of the PATEM II scale is to assess children’s self-esteem and self-perception across various aspects of their lives.

Scoring

The questionnaire includes six subscales, five of which reflect specific self-perception domains, and one that evaluates self-esteem. The specific domains of self-perception are:
Academic competence
Peer relationships
Athletic competence
Physical appearance
Conduct/behavior

Validity

The types of validity tested include construct validity and concurrent validity. In the exploratory factor analysis of students’ responses to the 25 questions across the five self-perception domains, both Cattell’s scree test and Kaiser’s criterion suggested the extraction of five factors. These five factors correspond to the questionnaire’s subscales. The description of PATEM II’s validity shows that the questionnaire has a solid factor structure, convergent validity, and concurrent validity, making it a reliable tool for evaluating children’s self-perception and self-esteem.

Sample

The scale was standardized on a sample of 454 children from 4th, 5th, and 6th grades of primary school (217 boys and 237 girls). The manual provides the means and standard deviations of the self-perception and self-esteem scores by gender and school grade.

Reliability

The internal consistency reliability, evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha, ranges from 0.67 to 0.74 across the PATEM II subscales. This indicates that the subscales of the questionnaire have satisfactory internal consistency, meaning that the items (questions) within each subscale are coherent with one another and measure the same construct.

References

Harter, S. (1985). Manual for the Self-Perception Profile for Children. Denver, CO: University of Denver Press.
Makri-Botsari, E. (2001a). How I Perceive Myself II. A questionnaire for the evaluation of self-perception and self-esteem in students of 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.
Makri-Botsari, E. (2001b). Self-perception and self-esteem: Models, development, functional role, and assessment. Athens: Ellinika Grammata.