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Competence and Acceptance of Children with Developmental Disabilities: An Examination of Self-concept

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship of the self-concepts of a sample of 248 children with developmental disabilities with demographic variables and measures of child functioning and family situational variables. In addition, responses on a measure of self-concept were compared with those of a normative sample provided by Harter. Results indicated that, using this measure and these populations, there were no differences in the self-concept of children with disabilities and those without disabilities. Canonical correlation analysis indicated that children's cognitive achievement and independent functioning skills were moderately related to their self-concepts, but demographic variables and family functioning explained very little of the variance of the self-concept constructs as measured here .

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-3380
Date01 May 1994
CreatorsSmith, Cindy S.
PublisherDigitalCommons@USU
Source SetsUtah State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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