TY - JOUR PY - 1990// TI - Self-esteem and depression. II. Social correlates of self-esteem JO - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology A1 - Brown, G. W. A1 - Bifulco, A. A1 - Veiel, H. O. A1 - Andrews, Ben SP - 225 EP - 234 VL - 25 IS - 5 N2 - The Self-Evaluation and Social Support Schedule (SESS), an interview-based instrument, is described, which aims to give a comprehensive description of a person's social milieu in terms of 'objective' and 'subjective' measures. On the basis of a population survey of 400 largely working-class women, a tentative causal model is developed which relates both the quality of current interpersonal ties and childhood experiences to current negative and positive measures of self-esteem. A major purpose of the exercise is to develop positive and negative indices of the social environment that can be used to elucidate the aetiological role of self-esteem in the development of depression. This is the task of a third paper.
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