title: Relationships between area-specific measures of self-concept, self-esteem and academic achievement for junior high school students.
abstract: Physical maturity, peer relations, academic success and school adaptiveness self-concept and self-esteem measures were correlated with reading, language, mathematics, and composite achievement scores for 26 male and 48 female junior high school students. Academic success self-concept was significantly correlated with each of the achievement measures. Peer relations self-concept and self-esteem correlated with language, math, and composite achievement. Academic success self-esteem measures did not correlate with any of the measures of achievement.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept