The relationship between self–concept and academic achievement of grade 10 pupils in the Taung Central Circuit of Vryburg District in the North West Province of South Africa

[摘要] The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-concept andacademic achievement. The subjects were 10th grade male and female pupils in theTaung Central Education circuit in the Northwest Province of South Africa. All the eightsecondary schools in the circuit participated in this study. The researcher administered aself-designed 5-point Likert type self-concept scale to a sample of 296 respondents, tomeasure of both general and academic self-concept. The subjects' academic scores wereextracted from the schools' examination records. The Pearson product-momentcoefficient of correlation was used to measure the size of the relationship between theresearch variables. Research findings revealed that: There is a positive relationship between academic achievement and self-concept.There is a positive relationship between academic achievement and academic self-concept.The relationship between academic achievement and general self-concept is strongerthan the relationship between academic achievement and general self concept.

[发布机构] North-West University