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Construct validity of the Piers-Harris Children's Self-concept Scale
Demetrios S Alexopoulos1, Evangelia Foudoulaki
1Department of Education, Section of Psychology, University of Patras, Greece. dalexopl@ath.forthnet.gr
Psychological Reports
|January 18, 2003
Abstract:
The aim of the present study was to investigate the construct validity of the Piers-Harris Children's Self-concept Scale with a group of 511 (264 girls, 247 boys aged 9 to 12 years) Greek children. Principal Components Analysis was performed. Six factors emerged, i.e., Behavior, Anxiety, Intellectual and School Status, Popularity, Physical Appearance and Attributes, and Self-contentment.