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THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE SELF DESCRIPTION QUESTIONNAIRE: A NIGERIAN INVESTIGATION
Author(s) -
WATKINS DAVID,
AKANDE ADEBOWALE
Publication year - 1992
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.2044-8279.1992.tb01004.x
Subject(s) - nigerians , psychology , strengths and difficulties questionnaire , developmental psychology , scale (ratio) , social psychology , psychiatry , geography , mental health , cartography , political science , law
S ummary . This paper examines the appropriateness for Nigerian students of the Self Description Questionnaire — 1 (SDQ‐1; Marsh, 1988) and the Shavelson model of self‐concept on which it is based. The results of an administration of the SDQ‐1 to 462 Nigerian 12–13 year‐olds are reported. The item scale correlations and reliability coefficients obtained were encouraging. Factor analysis generally supported both the specific facets of the SDQ‐1 and the existence of an underlying general self‐concept factor. These results are then considered in relation to other evidence of the cross‐cultural validity of both the SDQ‐1 and the Shavelson model of the self. Tentative comparisons of the Nigerian means with those of previously reported Australian, Filipino, and Nepalese children of the same age indicated that there was a tendency for the Australians and the Nigerians to have relatively higher Non‐Academic self‐esteem than the other nationalities. The Nigerians seemed to have significantly higher opinions of their physical appearance than did the other nationalities.