Academic
self-concept among business students in a recruiting university: Definition, measurement and potential effects.
Self-concept, in general, encompasses a set of ideas or beliefs which one has about oneself (Plucker & Stocking, 2001).
(2003) analyzed the relationships between
self-concept and various personality factors in a sample of 174 Spanish adolescents.
Shields N, Loy Y, Murdoch A, Dodd KJ (2007), concluded in the paper titled
Self-concept of children with cerebral palsy compared with that of children without impairment, "Children with Cerebral Palsy do not have a lower Global Self-worth even though they may feel less competent in certain aspects of their
self-concept".
Keywords : Mood- States, Adolescents, Family- Pathology, Academic-Achievement,
Self-Concept, Birth-Order, Working Status of Mother, and Educational Status of Mother.
However, few studies have focused on the
self-concept of young children (e.g.
An adolescent's potential to solve problems, knowledge of moral codes and social norms, and growing consciousness towards adulthood all play very important role in the development of
self-concept (Burns, 1979).
"This was the first study that examined youth with psychiatric disorder by comparing what type of service they were receiving and whether that was associated with
self-concept," said Mark Ferro, Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.
The gist of present study is the premise to elucidate the comparison of students'
self-concept on the basis of visual impairment and normal vision.
Various works have studied the
self-concept at different stages with regard to several problems.