Krieķe, ZaneMārtinsone, KristīnePerepjolkina, ViktorijaLubkina, VeltaMārtinsone, KristīneŠneidere, Kristīne2022-09-292022-09-292020-05-20Krieķe, Z, Mārtinsone, K & Perepjolkina, V 2020, The mediation effect of self-esteem on the relationship between personality traits and collective self-esteem in the sample of Latvian arts therapists. in V Lubkina, K Mārtinsone & K Šneidere (eds), Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība = Society. Integration. Education : starptautiskās zinātniskās konferences materiāli = proceedings of the international scientific conference. vol. 7 : Psiholoģija, Society. Integration. Education=Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība, Rēzeknes Tehnoloģiju akadēmija, Rēzekne, pp. 108-117, International Scientific Conference “Society. Integration. Education: Sabiedrība. Integrācija. Izglītība”, 2020, Rēzekne, Latvia, 22/05/20. https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2020vol7.5018, https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2020vol7.5018conference1691-5887unpaywall: 10.17770/sie2020vol7.5018Mendeley: b8e6e4ae-8d68-3a32-9c70-5eb3c3953651https://dspace.rsu.lv/jspui/handle/123456789/9608The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among personality traits, self-esteem and collective self-esteem of Latvian Arts therapistsand specifically to examine a potentially mediating role of self-esteemon the correlation between personality traits and collective self-esteem. The sample of the study consisted of 81 Arts therapists of whom data for 74 AT wereanalysed.The data were collected by Latvian Personality Inventory (LPI-v3), Collective Self-Esteem Scale (CSES), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) including the demographic data. Pearson correlations indicated significant negative moderate correlation between self-esteem and LPI scale Neuroticism, positive moderate correlation between self-esteem and CSES scale Membership self-esteem and between LPI scale Neuroticism and CSES scale Membership self-esteem, therefore mediation analysis was applied to examine the effect of self-esteem ona relationship between Neuroticism and Membership Self-Esteem. Sobel test was used to test the significance of a mediation effect. Results indicated Self-esteem as a significantmediator in the relationship between Neuroticism and Membershipself-esteem.The findings of this research suggest that emotional stability and self-esteem influence Latvian Arts therapist’s senseofidentifyingthemselves as members with their professional group. These results are important for further development of Latvian Arts therapist profession to strengthen Art therapist’s professional identity10186376enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessarts therapistsself-esteempersonality traitscollective self-esteem5.1 Psychology3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontobookanthology/conference10.17770/sie2020vol7.5018https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b8e6e4ae-8d68-3a32-9c70-5eb3c3953651/https://www-webofscience-com.db.rsu.lv/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000835670500010