NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE AND ACADEMIC SELF CONCEPT: A MULTILEVEL MODEL

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dc.contributor.advisorStrein, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.authorPickering, Cyril Emmanuelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-08T05:36:01Z
dc.date.available2011-10-08T05:36:01Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThere is a robust correlation between a student's academic achievement and his/her academic self concept. Various contextual variables, such as the school population's average academic ability, have been shown to have an effect on academic self-concept and on the relationship between self-concept and measured achievement. Community variables can have an effect on a student's academic achievement, though the relationship with academic self-concept is not well established. Urbanicity of the environment is a variable of interest, as there are various ways to describe and measure a neighborhood, though there is still a question about what makes a neighborhood urban. This study seeks to measure urbanicity and uses this urbanicity variable in a multilevel model, estimating the direct effects of the context on academic self-concept and explores the possibility that urbanicity modifies the relationship between self-concept and other student variables. Analysis revealed that neighborhood variables had no significant relationship with self-concepten_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11882
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAcademic Self-Concepten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBig Fish Little Ponden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMultilevel Modelingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNeighborhooden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSelf-Concepten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUrbanicityen_US
dc.titleNEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE AND ACADEMIC SELF CONCEPT: A MULTILEVEL MODELen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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