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Self-esteem and academic achievement among adolescents
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The main purpose of this research is to analyse what strategies are pursued in
order to protect self-esteem when it is threatened by a negative self-evaluation of school
competence. Participants were 838 secondary-school students from the seventh to the ninth
grades. Data were collected using Harter’s Self-Perception Pro le for Adolescents, together with
a Scale of Attitudes towards School. Our results show that there are signi cant differences
between the self-esteem enjoyed by successful and unsuccessful students in the seventh grade;
such differences disappear in the eighth and ninth grades. They also reveal success-related
differences in domain-speci c self-evaluation. We also found that students with low levels of
academic achievement attribute less importance to school-related areas and reveal less favourable
attitudes towards school. We discuss these results in terms of Harter’s self-esteem model and
Robinson and Tayler’s self-esteem protection model.
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Educational Psychology, 22 (1). 51-62