Cross-cultural generalizability of social and dimensional comparison effects on reading, math, and science self-concepts for primary school students using the combined PIRLS and TIMSS data
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Guo, Jiesi, Marsh, Herbert W., Parker, Philip D. and Dicke, Theresa. (2018). Cross-cultural generalizability of social and dimensional comparison effects on reading, math, and science self-concepts for primary school students using the combined PIRLS and TIMSS data. Learning and Instruction. 58, pp. 210 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.07.007
Authors | Guo, Jiesi, Marsh, Herbert W., Parker, Philip D. and Dicke, Theresa |
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Abstract | Previous cross-cultural studies of social and dimensional comparison processes forming academic self-concepts (the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) and Internal-external frame-of-reference (I/E) models) have mostly been based on high-school students and two subject domains. Our study is the first to test the cross-cultural generalizability of both comparison processes across reading, mathematics, and science by combining of the TIMSS and PIRLS 2011 databases (15 OECD countries, 67,386 fourth-graders). Consistent with the I/E model, high achievement in mathematics/reading had positive effects on self-concept in the matching domain but negative effects in the non-matching domain. Extending the I/E model, students engaged in assimilating comparisons between science and reading (i.e., achievement in one subject had positive effects on self-concept in the other) but contrasting comparisons between mathematics and science. Strong BFLPEs (negative effects of class-average achievement on self-concept) were found for mathematics but were smaller for reading and science. The results generalized well across all countries. |
Keywords | Self-concept; Big-fish-little-pond effect; Internal/external frame of reference model; Dimensional comparisons; Cross-cultural |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | Learning and Instruction |
Journal citation | 58, pp. 210 - 219 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 0959-4752 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.07.007 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85050176495 |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Page range | 210 - 219 |
Research Group | Institute for Positive Psychology and Education |
Author's accepted manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | ARC/DP130102713 |
Place of publication | United States of America |
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