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SELF‐REGARD OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: SOME AUSTRALIAN DATA
Author(s) -
ELLERMAN D. A.
Publication year - 1980
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.2044-8279.1980.tb02437.x
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , test validity , factorial analysis , psychometrics , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , biology
S ummary . Samples of children (N = 1,267) attending primary schools in an Australian rural setting completed the Where Are You Game for the assessment of self‐regard, in order to investigate the test's psychometric properties and the correlates of test scores. Results showed the test to yield meaningful scores over the full age‐range of primary school, and to have acceptable estimated reliability. Factor analysis indicated the test to be uni‐factorial in structure. Correlations with observer ratings of pupil characteristics showed considerable convergent validity. Analysis of variance indicated that younger children had more favourable self‐regard than older children, those with good school achievement saw themselves more favourably than low achievers, the boys more favourably than girls. It is concluded that the test shows promise as a research instrument.