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THE SELF CONCEPTS OF TRAINEE‐TEACHERS IN TWO SUB‐CULTURES
Author(s) -
PHILLIPS A. S.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1963.tb00575.x
Subject(s) - psychology , ideal (ethics) , mathematics education , developmental psychology , social psychology , pedagogy , epistemology , philosophy
S ummary .1 The aim of this study was to compare the Self Concepts of training college students from two different sub‐cultures, viz., England and Jamaica. 2 Unstructured compositions by students from both countries, on the topic‐“I myself: the person I am; the person others think I am; the person I would like to be,” were analysed to reveal the categories students use in describing themselves. Some interesting qualitative differences appeared though students from both countries used the same categories in their self description. 3 Objective tests for measuring the Self Concept of students were constructed and administered to other students in both countries. The following comparisons between the two groups emerged:(a) Jamaican students, both male and female, of the regular age range as well as the mature, rated themselves significantly higher on the Cognized and the Ideal Selves, and were more Self Accepting than their English counterparts; (b) English male students rated themselves at approximately the same level as English female students. But, in the Jamaican samples, the female students tended to rate themselves higher than the men, and to be less Self Accepting. (c) There were no significant differences between the Self Concept scores of ‘regular’ English and ‘mature’ English students. But the ‘mature’ Jamaican students cognized themselves significantly lower than the ‘regular’ Jamaican students.