scholarly journals Attenuating the school context increases students’ academic self-concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 416-423
Author(s):  
Tamas Keller
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Home Based

We show two examples of how attenuating school-context-generated automatic social comparison leads to an increase in students’ academic self-concept (ASC), which is known to regulate the effort students put into education. In Study 1, we exploited COVID-19 induced home-based education to find that students’ ASC in reading and writing increased outside the school context. In Study 2, we activated/attenuated the school context by different priming in a randomized survey experiment. Here, we found that students who first reported their ASC, and subsequently their grades, had higher ASC in reading (but not in writing) than those who first reported their grades. The results indicate that social comparison might indirectly harm students’ educational achievement and attainment via their ASC.

scholarly journals Sociometric Popularity, Perceived Peer Support, and Self-Concept in Adolescence

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arantza Fernández-Zabala ◽  
Estibaliz Ramos-Díaz ◽  
Arantzazu Rodríguez-Fernández ◽  
Juan L. Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
School Context ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Family ◽  
Practical Implications

The objective of this study is to analyze the role that peer support plays in the incidence relationships between sociometric popularity and general self-concept based on sociometer theory. A total of 676 randomly selected secondary school students from the Basque Country (49.6% boys and 50.4% girls) between 12 and 18 years of age (M = 14.32, DT = 1.36) participated voluntarily. All of them completed a sociometric questionnaire (SOCIOMET), the Family and Friends Support Questionnaire (AFA-R), and the Dimensional Self-concept Questionnaire (AUDIM-33). Several models of structural equations were tested. The results indicate that sociometric popularity is linked to self-concept through the perceived social support of peers. These results are discussed within the framework of positive psychology and its practical implications in the school context.

Increasing Educational Achievement Via Self Concept Change

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Scheirer ◽  
Robert E. Kraut
Keyword(s):  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Concept Change

Contributions of Self-Concept and Intelligence to the Prediction of Academic Achievement among Grade 4, 6, and 8 Students

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Schicke ◽  
Thomas K. Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Zero Order ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Concept Model ◽  
Multidimensional Measure ◽  
Grade Levels

This study examined the contributions of self-concept and intelligence to the prediction of academic achievement among grade 4, 6, and 8 students. One unidimensional and one multidimensional measure of self-concept were employed to investigate which self-concept model would better predict educational achievement. Zero-order correlations between general self-concept and achievement were found; however, small but significant positive associations between academic self-concept and achievement were obtained. Regression analyses suggested that intelligence accounted for the most variance in achievement, and academic self-concept added a small amount above intelligence. Correlations between both global and academic self-concept and achievement were similar across grade levels.

Social Comparison, Judgment, and Behavior

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Behavior

This edited volume presents both classic and contemporary conceptual, empirical, and applied perspectives on the role of comparisons with other people—a core aspect of social life—that have implications for the self-concept, opinions, subjective and physical well-being, conformity, decision-making, group behavior, education, and social movements. The volume is comprised of original chapters, authored by noted experts, divided into three sections: basic comparison processes, neighboring fields, and applications. The first section is comprised of chapters that update classic theories and present advances, such as the dominating effect of local versus global comparisons, an analysis of the psychology of competition, how comparisons across different domains influence self-concept and achievement, and the integral connections between stereotyping and comparison. The second section introduces perspectives from neighboring fields that shed new light on social comparison. These chapters range from judgment and decision science, cognitive psychology, social network theory, and animal social behavior. The third section presents chapters that describe applications of comparison, including relative deprivation; health psychology; the effects of income inequality on well-being; the relationships among social hierarchies, power, and comparison; and the interconnections of psychological processes such as comparison and differential construal that favor the status quo and can discourage social action in the face of injustice and inequity.

Relationship of School Context to Rural Youth’s Educational Achievement and Aspirations

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1225-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Irvin ◽  
Judith L. Meece ◽  
Soo-yong Byun ◽  
Thomas W. Farmer ◽  
Bryan C. Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
Educational Achievement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Relationship Of

Social comparison in the classroom: The relationship between academic achievement and self-concept.

1978 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl M. Rogers ◽  
Monte D. Smith ◽  
J. Michael Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Relationship
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