title: The relationship among self-determination, self-concept, and academic achievement for students with learning disabilities.
abstract: Research suggests that self-determination skills are positively correlated with factors that have been shown to improve academic achievement, but the direct relationship among self-determination, self-concept, and academic achievement is not fully understood. This study offers an empirical explanation of how self-determination and self-concept affect academic achievement for adolescents with learning disabilities after taking into consideration the covariates of gender, income, and urbanicity. In a nationally representative sample (N = 560), the proposed model closely fit the data, with all proposed path coefficients being statistically significant. The results indicated that there were significant correlations among the three latent variables (i.e., self-determination, self-concept, and academic achievement), with self-determination being a potential predictor of academic achievement for students with learning disabilities.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Chunmei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA aerickson@ku.edu.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaumer Erickson
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Neal M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Kingston
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Patricia M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Noonan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012649:Self Concept; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult