Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale
Measures the domains on which individuals base their self-worth: family support, competition, appearance, God's love, academic competence, virtue, and approval from others.
Please respond to each of the following statements using the scale from "1 = Strongly disagree" to "7 = Strongly agree". If you haven't experienced the situation described in a particular statement, please answer how you think you would feel if that situation occurred.
1. When I think I look attractive, I feel good about myself.
2. My self-worth is based on God's love.
3. I feel worthwhile when I perform better than others on a task or skill.
4. My self-esteem is unrelated to how I feel about the way my body looks.
5. Doing something I know is wrong makes me lose my self-respect.
6. I don't care if other people have a negative opinion about me.
7. Knowing that my family members love me makes me feel good about myself.
8. I feel worthwhile when I have God's love.
9. I can't respect myself if others don't respect me.
10. My self-worth is not influenced by the quality of my relationships with my family members.
11. Whenever I follow my moral principles, my sense of self-respect gets a boost.
12. Knowing that I am better than others on a task raises my self-esteem.
13. My opinion about myself isn't tied to how well I do in school.
14. I couldn't respect myself if I didn't live up to a moral code.
15. I don't care what other people think of me.
16. When my family members are proud of me, my sense of self-worth increases.
17. My self-esteem is influenced by how attractive I think my face or facial features are.
18. My self-esteem would suffer if I didn't have God's love.
19. Doing well in school gives me a sense of self-respect.
20. Doing better than others gives me a sense of self-respect.
21. My sense of self-worth suffers whenever I think I don't look good.
22. I feel better about myself when I know I'm doing well academically.
23. What others think of me has no effect on what I think about myself.
24. When I don't feel loved by my family, my self-esteem goes down.
25. My self-worth is affected by how well I do when I am competing with others.
26. My self-esteem goes up when I feel that God loves me.
27. My self-esteem is influenced by my academic performance.
28. My self-esteem would suffer if I did something unethical.
29. It is important to my self-respect that I have a family that cares about me.
30. My self-esteem does not depend on whether or not I feel attractive.
31. When I think that I'm disobeying God, I feel bad about myself.
32. My self-worth is influenced by how well I do on competitive tasks.
33. I feel bad about myself whenever my academic performance is lacking.
34. My self-esteem depends on whether or not I follow my moral/ethical principles.
35. My self-esteem depends on the opinions others hold of me.