Along with other dimensions of women empowerment can I use self-esteem to measure psychological dimension of women empowerment? I have measured self-esteem by the Rosenberg scale. I know there are many more aspects to measure the psychological dimension of women empowerment. As in my study I have considered other dimensions of women's empowerment, So that I have considered only self-esteem. I am working with primary data. I have finished my data collection. So not possible to include any other measure of psychological dimensions. So they have to work with self-esteem only. I need some reference to logically explain why do I use only self-esteem to measure psychological dimensions. If it creates any controversy in the future can I change the name as to the self-esteem dimension in that case? Looking forward to your valuable answer. TIA.
You can do this by focusing on the social factor. For example, you can try to measure at first the social pressure on women by analyzing the laws, rules, and customs that restrict their rights and refer to the impact they have on self-esteem. For this, self-esteem must be defined in your terms, referring to the influencing factors you measure.
At an individual level but empowerment is also a broader concept that includes the collective and might even be measured at the national level using a mixed method approach. I suggest you download the following for more information on measuring women´s empowerment Laverack, G. and Pratley, P. (2018) What quantitative and qualitative methods have been developed to measure community empowerment at a national level? Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe (Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report 59).
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