Self‐concepts Among Secondary School Pupils

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Approximately 500 out of a sample of over 2,000 first‐year pupils in 20 secondary schools were identified by their teachers as being either particularly well‐adjusted, maladjusted or as having appeared before a court. These pupils were asked to complete ‘semantic differential’ scales on which they rated for such concepts as ‘myself’, ‘my mother thinks I am . . .’, ‘my father thinks I am . . .’, ‘my friends think I am . . .’ and ‘my teacher thinks I am . . .’. The investigation was repeated for most of the same pupils in the fourth year. There was little difference in the self‐evaluations of the three groups, but interesting differences emerged between the groups as to how they believed others saw them. The investigation was carried out in 1967 and 1970 as part of the NFER Constructive Education project, sponsored by the Home Office and the Department of Education and Science.

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