A 5-year-old child already has developed about 80 percent of his or her self-concept, says Janet Gordon, a Purdue University Cooperative Extension specialist in consumer and family sciences. So ...

When encouraging children to become excited about learning, it is very important to help them develop a positive academic self-concept. A person's academic self-concept is the way they identify with ...

A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development, Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews ...

During the elementary-school years, a child's world expands dramatically to include not only their family and playmates but a widening circle of schoolmates and adults. In this enlarged environment, ...