Educational and developmental psychologists have tried to understand how skills and motivation are linked to academic achievement. While research supports ties between individuals' concepts of their ...

Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOSReviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS Self-concept is the image we have of ourselves. It is influenced by many forces, including our interaction with the important ...

Psychology defines self-concept clarity as a stable sense of self. Those with high clarity report greater life satisfaction ...

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, ...

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' ...