Arab Educational Information Network

The study aimed to examine the relative effectiveness of using the phrase completion method compared to the Likert scale method being used in the Arabic version of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) which includes five positively worded items and five negatively worded items, and a response scale consisted of four verbal descriptions (strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, strongly disagree). The data were collected from (501) undergraduate male and female students from different majors at one of the public universities in Jordan. The results revealed a relative advantage of the phrase completion method compared to the Likert scale method, whereby the scale internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach-Alpha) were found to be significantly greater than their counterparts in the Likert scale method. The results related to the scale construct validity indicated a significant greater item intercorrelations in the phrase completion method compared to their counterparts in the Likert scale method. Moreover, the three models being fitted to the data in the context of structural equation model (SEM) revealed significant better model fit to the data in the phrase completion method compared to the Likert scale method. (Published abstract)