Rosenberg's global measure of self-esteem was given to freshman and senior high school boys and girls enrolled in schools emphasizing different curricula, vocational-technical or college orientation (ns = 46 and 56). In the former, boys' self-esteem scores were higher for seniors than for freshmen; in the latter school, however, boys' mean self-esteem was lower for seniors than for freshmen. Girls' means were lower for freshmen than seniors in the vocational school but were similar in the college-oriented school.
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