title: Validating the measurement and structure of self-concept: snapshots of past, present, and future research.
abstract: Although the study of self-concept has been a topic of great interest and much study in the social sciences for many decades, it is really only in the past 30 years that any fruitful expansion in knowledge of both its theoretical structure and its related measurement has been forthcoming. From three perspectives--past, present, and future--the author presents abbreviated and selected highlights of important construct validity findings related to this research and postulates possible trends and areas of self-concept research yet to be explored.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada. bmbch@uottawa.ca
authors.forename: Barbara M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Byrne
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003469:Culture; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012952:Societies; D014481:United States