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The stability of the twofold multidimensionality of academic self-concept : A study of Chinese secondary school students
Han, Feifei Juklová, Kateřina Mikoška, Petr Novák, Lukáš
Han, Feifei
Juklová, Kateřina
Mikoška, Petr
Novák, Lukáš
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)
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
13
Issue
Page Range
1-15
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE)
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
Relation URI
Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
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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COPYRIGHT © 2023 Han, Juklová, Mikoška and Novák. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.