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 study was designed to provide psychometric and developmental information for a caregiver report and observational measure of young children's self-concept. The Caregiver Inventory of Self-Concept ...

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, ...

Young children's sense of self is similar to that of older kids and adults. The results show that our ability to reason about our self-worth as individuals develops early in life. Young children's ...

Q: What is self-esteem? And why is it important? A: Self-esteem is another way of describing a child's understanding of his or her "value" as a person and is related to a child's self-perceptions, ...

It's common for parents to wonder how their children feel about themselves. But it can be a difficult question to answer. Where do you begin? Do you know how your child feels about his home, family, ...