Premium
A multi‐perspective multi‐domain model of self‐concept: structure and sources of self‐concept knowledge
Author(s) -
Cheung Ping Chung,
Lau Sing
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/1467-839x.00072
Subject(s) - facet (psychology) , perspective (graphical) , confirmatory factor analysis , domain (mathematical analysis) , psychology , trait , structural equation modeling , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , machine learning , mathematics , personality , big five personality traits , mathematical analysis , programming language
A perspective‐specific model which deals with the sources of self‐concept knowledge as construed by two theories (symbolic interaction and social comparison) was combined with Shavelson’s domain‐specific model to form a two‐facet model of self‐concept. The structure of this two‐facet model was tapped by a new self‐concept instrument, the Multi‐Perspective Multi‐Domain Self‐Concept Inventory (MMSI), which was constructed by crossing domain and perspective facets. Results of confirmatory factor analysis by grade level of the data from a large sample of primary two, four, and six students lent support to the multi‐perspective multi‐domain model. The MMSI facilitates the estimation of (a) the differential contribution of domain and perspective factors, and (b) the differential contribution of different sources of self‐concept knowledge. It also serves as an exemplar of an interesting application of the multi‐trait multi‐method model in confirmatory factor analysis.