%A SHA Jingying; ZHANG Xiangkui %T A cross-temporal meta-analysis of changes in Chinese college students’ self-esteem: 1993~2013 %0 Journal Article %D 2016 %J Advances in Psychological Science %R 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2016.01712 %P 1712-1722 %V 24 %N 11 %U {https://journal.psych.ac.cn/xlkxjz/CN/abstract/article_3576.shtml} %8 2016-11-15 %X

The present study conducted a cross-temporal meta-analysis of 83 papers that using Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale to investigate Chinese college students’ self-esteem. There are 48384 college students involved in 83 papers and the data collection time ranged from 1993 to 2013. Results showed that: (1) The self-esteem of Chinese college students decreased steadily in the 20 years between 1993 through 2013. Compared to the year of 1993, it dropped 0.86 standard deviations in 2013; (2) Self-esteem of both male and female Chinese college students declined significantly, whereas, self-esteem scores had no significant gender difference; (3) Furthermore, there’s no difference of self-esteem between rural and urban students. Both of them declined significantly.