Changing Sources of Self-Esteem among Girls and Boys in Secondary Schools
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Education
- Vol. 24 (4) , 432-439
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085990024004006
Abstract
Self-esteem of early adolescent girls depends upon parental support, but that of boys upon a sense of mastery. Later; sense of mastery becomes most important for both boys' and girls' self-esteem.Keywords
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