62 boys and girls enrolled in Grades 4 through 9 participated in the study. The correlations were significant and ranged from .44 to –- .83 between scores on all facets of a modified version of Beck's Depression Inventory and the Culture-free Self-esteem Inventory for Children, Form A.
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