Self-appraisals, actual appraisals and reflected appraisals of preadolescent children

Author(s)

Andreas Hergovich, Ulrike Sirsch, Martin Felinger

Abstract

The relationship between children's self-perceptions, children's perceptions of others' appraisal (i.e., reflected appraisals) and others' actual appraisals reported by mothers, fathers and teachers were examined. The Self-Description Questionnaire 1 (Marsh, 1988) was presented to 428 children. Parents and teachers were given an adapted form. Additionally, children were asked for reflected appraisals of their mothers, fathers and teachers according to the scales of the SDQ1. Results suggest that the reflected appraisal process is in fact more complicated than originally assumed by the theorist of symbolic interactionism. Thus, besides direct effects from actual appraisal on reflected appraisal and reflected appraisal on self-appraisal, there are also indications of an effect by actual appraisals on self- and reflected appraisals, especially for academic self-concept. Furthermore, results indicate that different significant others have a different impact on the self-perceptions of preadolescent children.

Organisation(s)

Journal

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal

Volume

30

Pages

603-612

No. of pages

10

ISSN

0301-2212

Publication date

2002

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

5010 Psychology

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a8590f06-0aa0-4c38-aee4-7e03403862ac