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Self-esteem and academic achievement among adolescents
| dc.contributor.author | Martins, Margarida Alves | |
| dc.contributor.author | Peixoto, Francisco José Brito | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira, Maria Gouveia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amaral, Virgílio Ribeiro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pedro, Isaura | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-15T21:13:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-15T21:13:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | por |
| dc.identifier.citation | Educational Psychology, 22 (1). 51-62 | por |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0144-3410 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/1819 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | por |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | por |
| dc.title | Self-esteem and academic achievement among adolescents | por |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | London | por |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 62 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 51 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Educational Psychology | por |
| oaire.citation.volume | 22 | por |
| person.familyName | Gouveia Pereira | |
| person.givenName | Maria | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 4111-0C3E-B0CA | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-7814-466X | |
| rcaap.rights | restrictedAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |
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