Correlations between Trust, Self-Esteem, Sociometric Choice, and Internal-External Control

Summary —Fourth and fifth grade boys ( n = 55) and girls ( n = 46) were administered 4 paper-and-pencil tests designed to measure self-and-other trust, self-esteem, internal-external control, and sociometric choice. There were no sex differences on the separate measures but the patterns of correlations were quite different for boys and girls. For boys, self-trust, self-esteem, and popularity were positively related and each was negatively correlated with I-E control. For girls, self-trust, other-trust, and I-E control were positively correlated.