create a measure of self-esteem. 1. Provide a working definition of self-esteem. 2. Indicate the type of response format that you would recommend for our instrument (for example, Likert-scale, open-ended, true-false, multiple choice) 3. Discuss your approach to item construction. In other words, describe the process you use to generate items for our instrument. 4. List at least five items we could include in our new self-esteem scale.