title: Tennessee Self-concept Scale scores of urban African-American women.
abstract: The Tennessee Self-concept Scale: Second Edition scores of 33 urban, African-American women were compared in a pretest-posttest design. The treatment was exposure to a 3-mo. literacy and social skills training program. Contrary to expectations, scores on just two subscales--Self-criticism and Physical Self--fell outside the average range. Also, Physical Self was the only scale score to change significantly (-3.83). These results suggest that self-esteem scores of urban African Americans were similar to those of women in the general population.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-1250, USA.
authors.forename: Maxie P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Kohler
authors.forename: Gary L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Sapp
authors.forename: Emmett T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Kohler
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sandoval
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior; D015144:Southeastern United States; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*