Profile formation of academic self-concept in elementary school students in grades 1 to 4

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 12; no. 5; p. e0177854
• Main Authors: Schmidt, Isabelle, Brunner, Martin, Keller, Lena, Scherrer, Vsevolod, Wollschläger, Rachel, Baudson, Tanja Gabriele, Preckel, Franzis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 18.05.2017; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Achievement; Adolescents; Age; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Careers; Child; Children; Cognitive ability; Colleges & universities; Computer programs; Continuity (mathematics); Correlation; Covariance; Criteria; Cross-Sectional Studies; Differentiation; Education; Elementary school students; Factor analysis; Feedback; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Internet; Invariance; Language; Least squares method; Male; Mathematical models; Motivation; Native languages; People and Places; Physical Sciences; Psychological factors; Psychology; Public concern; Quality; Quality of life; Rehabilitation; Representations; Research and Analysis Methods; Research methodology; Research methods; Rivers; Schools; Secondary school students; Self Concept; Self esteem; Self perception; Shc protein; Slopes; Social Sciences; Software; Statistical analysis; Structural analysis; Structural models; Students - psychology; Studies; World Wide Web; Luxembourg; Germany

Academic self-concept (ASC) is comprised of individual perceptions of one's own academic ability. In a cross-sectional quasi-representative sample of 3,779 German elementary school children in grades 1 to 4, we investigated (a) the structure of ASC, (b) ASC profile formation, an aspect of diffe...