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self-concept
n.
An individual's assessment of his or her status on a single trait or on many human dimensions using societal or personal norms as criteria.

self-concept,
the composite of ideas, feelings, and attitudes that a person has about his or her own identity, worth, capabilities, and limitations. Such factors as the values and opinions of others, especially in the formative years of early childhood, play an important part in the development of the self-concept.

self-concept,
n the composite of ideas, feelings, and attitudes that a person has about his or her own identity, worth, capabilities, and limitations.


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Self-concept may be defined as the totality of perceptions that each person has of themselves, and this self-identity plays an important role in the psychological functioning of everyone.
He provides a conceptual and practical framework for identifying and correcting low self-concept and hopelessness, based on restructuring a child's destructive beliefs about himself, teaching him to understand and cope with emotions, and using behavior modification plans to help him develop an internal locus of control.
The purpose of this study was to investigate young adolescents' self-concept and classroom environment perceptions as they transitioned from two different elementally organizational structures into one middle school.
 
 
 
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