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Mutidimensional self-concept in adolescence: Academic self-concept in specific school subjects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

Lenore Bryant
Lenore Bryant*
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Stafford District Special Services Centre
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Abstract

The School Subjects Questionnaire was administered to 300 students (15-22 years old) in Years 11 and 12 at a Brisbane metropolitan State high school. Ratings of self-concept in eleven specific school subjects and in “all school subjects” were obtained. Factor analysis of these responses identified nine separate facets of academic self-concept. The hypothesised relationships among English subject-related self-concepts, Math subject-related self-concepts, Creative Arts subjects and Practical Arts subjects were not clearly obtained in this study.

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Queensland Journal of Guidance and Counselling , Volume 3 , November 1989 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1989

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