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An investigation of the construct validity of the Tennessee self‐concept scale
Author(s) -
Bertinetti Joseph F.,
Fabry Julian
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197704)33:2<416::aid-jclp2270330216>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , construct validity , variance (accounting) , construct (python library) , sample (material) , statistics , psychometrics , clinical psychology , mathematics , cartography , geography , computer science , chemistry , accounting , chromatography , business , programming language
A common factor analysis was utilized to extend the validation of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale to adolescents, a group for which no previous study has been available. Product‐moment correlation coefficients were calculated on the 100 items of the Tennessee Self Concept Scale for a sample of 237 secondary school students from a large southwestern metropolitan area in the United States. A total of 46 items were found to contribute to the factor structure, which produced nine factors that accounted for 36.4% of the original variance. The results of this investigation concur to some degree with Fitts' model of the construct of self‐concept.