title: Academic self-concept as a predictor of achievement for a sample of elementary school students.
abstract: This study examined the relationship of academic self-concept scores of 122 children with their achievement in Grade 6 as compared to general self-concept and locus of control. Academic self-concept correlated significantly higher with teachers' grades and standardized measures of achievement than either general self-concept or locus of control. A multiple regression analysis also confirmed the potential usefulness of academic self-concept for predicting students' achievement. Academic self-concept may be a more useful construct in helping understand students' achievement than frequently administered measures of general self-concept.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling and School Psychology, University ofWisconsin-River Falls 54022.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lyon
authors.forename: N T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: MacDonald
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept