The stability of the twofold multidimensionality of academic self-concept : A study of Chinese secondary school students
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Han, Feifei, Juklová, Kateřina, Mikoška, Petr and Novák, Lukáš. (2023). The stability of the twofold multidimensionality of academic self-concept : A study of Chinese secondary school students. Frontiers in Psychology. 13, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1001187
Authors | Han, Feifei, Juklová, Kateřina, Mikoška, Petr and Novák, Lukáš |
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Abstract | Introduction: The present investigation examined the stability of the twofold multidimensional structure of academic self-concepts (ASCs) in three domains, namely Chinese, math, and general school using four-wave data collected over 2 years among 552 Chinese secondary school students. Method: Adopting both a within-network and a between-network approach, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) and factor correlations were performed in Mplus 8.2. Results: The within-network results showed that CFA models wherein competence and affect dimensions were conflated generated unacceptable fit. In contrast, the CFAs in which competence and affect were modeled as separate latent factors consistently produced superior fit to the data. The between-network results demonstrated that in the Chinese and math domains and across the four-time waves, the competence components were more strongly related to the achievements in matching domains than the affect components were. Furthermore, both the competence and affect components of ASCs and achievements were positively correlated in the non-matching domains, which were somewhat contradictory to the internal/external frame of reference model predicting zero or negative relations. Discussion: Such results seem to suggest more involvement in social comparison than in dimensional comparison of Chinese students, which might be attributed to the collectivistic Chinese culture and the common phenomenon of academic social comparisons among Chinese adolescents in schools. |
Keywords | Academic self-concepts (ASCs); Twofold multidimensional structure; Chinese secondary school; Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
Journal citation | 13, pp. 1-15 |
Publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
ISSN | 1664-1078 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1001187 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1001187/full |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-15 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 06 Jan 2023 |
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Accepted | 08 Dec 2022 |
Deposited | 12 Apr 2024 |
Additional information | This study was supported by the International mobilities for research activities of the University of Hradec Králové II, CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0017841; Faculty of Education, the University of Hradec Králové as part of the projects: Individual and contextual predictors of the effect of supporting academic autonomy in future teachers (number: 2101); the Competition for Postdoctoral Job Positions (number: 2201); and Excessive use of social networks and emotional intelligence (number: 2110). |
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Place of publication | Switzerland |
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