Abstract
Self-concept development from childhood to adolescence was studied from a cognitive-structural perspective. The responses of subjects to the question Who am I? were analyzed by means of a 30-category scoring system. Between childhood and adolescence, there was a significant increase in self-concepti ons categorized as follows: occupational role; existential, individuating; ideological and belief references; the sense of self-determination; the sense of unity; interpersonal style; and psychic style. A decrease occurred for self-conceptions based on territoriality, citizenship; possessions, resources; and physical self, body image. Curvilinear age changes were found for the use of the categories sex; name; kinship role; membership in an abstract category; and judgments, tastes, likes. The results for self-concept development were in general agreement with Werner's notion that cognitive development proceeds from a concrete to an abstract mode of representation.
Keywords
PsychologyDevelopmental psychologyAdolescent developmentChildhood developmentChild developmentCognitive developmentCognition
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- 1977
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- article
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 314-319
- Citations
- 234
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Raymond Montemayor,
Marvin Eisen
(1977).
The development of self-conceptions from childhood to adolescence..
Developmental Psychology
, 13
(4)
, 314-319.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.13.4.314
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- 10.1037/0012-1649.13.4.314