ERIC ED094025: Significant Others and Self Perceptions pdf

ERIC ED094025: Significant Others and Self Perceptions

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The study reported here investigated the various dimensions of actual and inferred self in comparison to the ratings of the subjects by supposed significant others. An inventory of 40 bi-polar traits used extensively in previous research was given to secondary school students to measure their self-concepts and their reflected selves–how they think their teachers rate them, their parents, and their classmates. The teachers and parents were given the same traits for rating the same adolescents. A sample of 120 students was randomly drawn from an urban area secondary school population. There was a minority composition of 36 percent blacks and 18 percent Puerto Ricans among the 60 disadvantaged youths. There was a white majority of 75 percent in the advantaged group. Both disadvantaged and advantaged students indicated positive self-concepts, with the disadvantaged having significantly higher self-concepts than the advantaged youths. For both groups of students, the level of reflected self seems to be a function of the self-concept.

The parents’ perceptions were very close to all the self-perceptions. The teachers’ ratings were at a considerable distance; and even though the teachers rated both advantaged and disadvantaged students positively, the disadvantaged children were rated much lower than the advantaged children. (Author/JM

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1974-04
• Year: 1974
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Characteristics, Parent Attitudes, Puerto Ricans, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Self Concept Measures, Self Esteem, Self Evaluation, Social Differences, Teacher Attitudes, Urban Youth, White Students, Soares, Anthony T., Soares, Louise M

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