Explain the factors affecting the development of self concept in children
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
THE YOUNG CHILD 1
S SELF-CONCEPT: FACTORS WHICH
INFLUENCE POSITI\~ DEVELOPMENT
By
JULIE HOFHEIMER FI1TLEY
GERALDINE PRYOR MCPHERSON
A thesis submitted to the Department
of Elementaty and Secondary Education in
partial fulfillments of the requirements
for the degree of-Master of Education
Committee Members:
Dr. janice Wood
THE YOUNG CHILD'S SELF-CONCEPI': FACTORS WHICH
INFLUENCE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Julie Hofheimer Finley, M.Ed.
Geraldine Pryor I1cPherson, M.Ed.
The Uni versi ty of North F'lorida, 197.5
Major Professor: Janice Wood
The fundamental question proposed in this study was: can treat-
ment, in the fo:!:'m of prescribed teacher behavior, classroom atmosphere
and experiences~ affect a positive change in the growth and develop-
ment of the YO'lng child's self-concept. The second.ary area question-
ed the extent to which the parent's self-concept score correlat.es to
that of the child.
Based. upon the asslUnption that adult and child self -concept can
be meas~ced, the I See Me Scale was constructed and utilized with
children as a pre- and postassessment and the How I See Hyself Scale
was used to measure parent self -concept. Thus , it Was hypothesized
that: 1) the:ee will be no statistically significant difference be-
tween the mean gain SCOTes of the two grau})s of children after treat-
menti and 2) that there will be no statistically significant correlation
1eb-reen parent and child self-concept scores.
Procedures. One hundred subjects were selected for pa.rtici~::Ltion
in this study. The subjects were five and six year old chilclren in four
kinderg",rtel1 clas~,;et~ from two Duval County schools. On;:;: class from
each scbool W2,S s'C!lected as an experimental group c:.nd ore as a
ACKNOWLEDGE}~NTS
We wish to express our appreciation to the following persons
whose contributions made this educational enterprise possible.
Dr. Janice Wood, professor and advisor, provided us with much
knowledge, guidance, and continuing patience throughout this study.
Dr. James Cangelosi contributed to the study by offering assist-
ance in statistical computations.
Our appreciation is also extended to Project Follow Through at
the University of Florida which permitted us the use of the How I
See Myself Scale.
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self-concept in children is the thoughts and emotions that they have created and developed in themselves with what they have observed in their childhood.
It is affected by many factors such as
- through their parents- the things they taught to their children and the way they act in front of them, make a huge impact on children's thoughts.
- From their friends - the peer group with whom children spent most of their time do have an impact on the development of self-concept in children.
- From society - nowadays many new technologies have been developed specially for the growth of children like TV or tabs, on which it is very important for them to watch the content as per their age. And it do effect their thought process.