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Self-esteem, academic self-concept, and aggression at school.

Laramie D Taylor¹, Pamela Davis-Kean, Oksana Malanchuk

¹Department of Communication, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA. lartaylor@ucdavis.edu

Aggressive Behavior

|April 19, 2007

Summary

Students with low academic self-concept are more likely to exhibit school aggression. However, threats to self-concept can also trigger aggression in some students, independent of global self-esteem.

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Area of Science:

Educational Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology

Background:

Academic self-concept and self-esteem are crucial psychological constructs.
Understanding their relationship with aggression is vital for school interventions.
Previous research yields mixed findings on self-esteem as a predictor of aggression.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the longitudinal relationship between academic self-concept, self-esteem, and school aggression.
To investigate if academic self-concept influences aggression, especially when threatened.
To determine if global self-esteem predicts aggression in middle school.

Main Methods:

Longitudinal study design with a racially diverse middle school sample.
Data collected via self-report (academic self-concept), school records (academic performance), and parent reports (discipline).
Statistical analysis to assess predictive relationships between self-concept, self-esteem, and aggression.

Main Results:

Lower academic self-concept significantly predicts higher likelihood of school aggression.
A subset of students exhibited aggression when their self-concept was threatened by contradictory information.
Global self-esteem was not found to be a significant predictor of aggression.

Conclusions:

Academic self-concept, particularly domain-specific, is a more relevant predictor of aggression than global self-esteem.
Threats to academic self-concept can be a trigger for aggressive behavior.
Findings support the use of proximal self-measures in understanding aggression.