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B A Bracken

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PubMed1998

Preliminary development of the Children's Physical Self-Concept Scale.

The development of a healthy eating style and physical fitness regimen in adolescence or adulthood might be contingent on physical self-concept in childhood. Most available measures of physical self-concept are inappropriate for use with 1st and 2nd grade children, so the present study developed, piloted, and partially validated the 27-item Children's Physical Self-Concept Scale (CPSS), which assesses Global physical self-concept and subscales of Physical Performance, Physical Appearance, and Weight Control behaviors in children 6 to 11 years of age. The test exhibits adequate test-retest reliability and internal consistency. A comparison of 316 normal and overweight children indicated that normal-weight children obtained higher Global physical self-concept scores and higher subscale scores. In addition, the CPSS distinguished test groups of diabetic, overweight, and normal-weight children in a contrasted-groups analysis.

Body Image↗
PubMed1997

Global and domain-specific self-concepts of a matched sample of adolescent runaways and nonrunaways.

Assessed the self-concepts of 132 adolescents (66 adolescent runaways and 66 nonrunaways) with the Multidimensional Self Concept Scale (MSCS). Adolescent runaways were found to have significantly lower global self-concepts than the matched group of children who did not run away (hereafter nonrunaways). Runaways were also found to have lower domain-specific self-concepts than nonrunaways in 5 of the 6 important domains assessed by the MSCS (i.e., Social, Affect, Academic, Family, and Physical). Within-group analyses revealed that runaway adolescents had significantly lower Family self-concepts than other specific domains of self-concept, which highlights the influence of families on children's psycho-social adjustment. As expected, nonrunaways did not differ across any of the domain-specific self-concepts.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1988

Concurrent validity of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale with language and intelligence measures.

The present study compared results obtained for 62 normally developing preschool children on the Bracken Basic Concept Scale, the Preschool Language Scale, and the Slossen Intelligence Test to determine whether scores on the tests correlated and were equivalent. Results of correlation analyses using standard scores from the Bracken Basic Concept Scale, the auditory comprehension and verbal ability subscales of the Preschool Language Scale, and the Slossen Intelligence Test revealed low to moderate correlations between the three tests. These results suggest that the tests do not measure the same abilities and thus cannot be used interchangeably to evaluate basic concept development, language, or intellectual functioning in preschool children. The moderate to high correlations found between the children's CAs and age-equivalents for the three tests indicate that the tests measure skills that are developmental in nature. Implications for assessment of concept development and language functioning in preschool children are discussed.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1979

Effects of cerebral dominance on college-level achievement.

Ability to perform successfully on multiple-choice tests was assessed for students displaying various cognitive styles. Male and female undergraduate students were classified according to right, left, or integrated cerebral functioning as determined by Your Style of Learning and Thinking test. The students participated in introductory classes in educational psychology and completed multiple-choice questions designed to assess content. The effects of cerebral dominance on student's ability to complete multiple-choice questions successfully were determined. Students designated by SOLAT as left dominant correctly completed significantly more multiple-choice questions than did right-dominant students. Implications for education were discussed.

Achievement↗