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Self-esteem is a concept which everybody experiences but there is conceptual confusion between self-feelings and self-conceptions. This book addresses the issue by replicating past studies with analysis of original data and proposing a three-factor theory of self-sentiments consisting of self-esteem, self-efficacy and self activation.

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Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Self-Concept, Self-Sentiment, and Motivation.- Chapter 3. The Dimensionality and Levels of Self Sentiment.- Chapter 4. Measuring Self-Sentiment.- Chapter 5. Psychological Centrality and Rosenberg´s Interactive Hypothesis.- Chapter 6. The Failure to Confirm Rosenberg´s Interactive Hypothesis.- Chapter 7. Rosenberg´s Seletivity Hypothesis.- Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusion.

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Neil J. MacKinnon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Canada. His book Symbolic Interactionism as Affect Control is an authoritative presentation of affect control theory; and a more recent book Self, Identity, and Social Institutions with David Heise presents a dynamic model of the self in the context of social institutions.

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