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This study focuses on processes involved in students’ academic self-concept constructions before, during, and after secondary school transition. The study is based on a four-wave longitudinal dataset (N = 1953). Structural equation modeling showed that during school transition, the impact of grades on students’ academic self-concepts in Math and English decreased whereas the effects of maternal...

Although emotional intelligence is related to psychological and social adjustment, currently there is not any tool that enables valid and reliable measurement of such construct in the Basque adolescent population. The TMMS-23 is a wellestablished assessment tool of perceived emotional intelligence in adolescence that measures people’s beliefs and attitudes about their own emotional experience. ...

Social comparison theory offers an understanding of the effect of deinstitutionalisation on the development of self-concept for people with intellectual disabilities (Finlay & Lyons, 2000). Social comparison theory predicts that people with intellectual disabilities living in the community will make comparisons with nondisabled groups and as such their self-concept will decrease because of nega...

Research has related poor and good academic performance — underachievers and overachievers — to the students ‘self-concept, so that subjects with high academic levels organize and express information concerning themselves in higher levels of competency. The sample of this study involved 7th-9th grade students, divided into two groups according to their performance in Math and Science, one with ...

Few paediatric health topics have sparked as much academic and public debate as school-based fitness testing. Since Rowland exclaimed nearly two decades ago that the “horse”, referring to schoolbased fitness testing is dead, opinion has been divided – to test or not to test. Whilst many agreed with Rowland`s criticisms, others suggest that it is not school-based fitness testing per se that is p...

The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1) to evaluate the existence of gender differences in self-concept/self-esteem, 2) to study the concomitant relationships between psychopathological symptoms, behavioural problems, and self-esteem/self-concept, and 3) to identify the predictive variables of high self-concept and self-esteem. The sample consists of 322 adolescents aged 14 to 17 years old ...

Objectives: One important issue in sport and exercise psychology is to determine to what extent sports and exercise can help to increase self-esteem, and what the underlying mechanism might be. Based on the exercise and self-esteem model (EXSEM) and on findings from the sociometer theory, the mediating effect of physical self-concept and perceived social acceptance on the longitudinal relations...

Introduction. This paper presents a qualitative exploration of university students' experience of searching an online public access catalogue. The study investigated how students conceptualise their searching process, as well as how students understand themselves as seekers of information. Method. Following a search task, thirty-eight university students were interviewed using a qualitative, se...