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This article investigates the effect of families’ socioeconomic status on the self-concept development of learners. The data were collected using a questionnaire from 31 learners who participated in the community engagement project. During the execution of this project, in addition to assisting learners using self-esteem development intervention me...
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... condensed index table also indicates that the majority of learners reside in a 'low' stimulus-score environment ( Table 7). Table 8, the composite one-way frequency table for the four aspects of a supportive community (which also measures socioeconomic status), indicates that family support is strong as reflected in the celebration of birthdays (67.74%); assistance with homework (64.52%); praise for performance (64.52%) and being supportive (80.65%). This positive support is reflected in the supportive-index (see Table 9) which indicates to a majority 'high'-index rating for learners (condensed scale). ...Citations
... It is plausible that students in the present study, almost 80% of whom are self-funded which suggest they come from a comfortable socio-economic background, have high perception of their self-abilities. This observation is aligned with a recent study showing significant dependencies between elements of the socioeconomic factor and self-concept (Gasa et al., 2018). ...
Human capability development is a key component of the Vision 2030 program of the Saudi Arabian government. Among others, it supports innovation and entrepreneurship culture to ensure global competitiveness of its citizens. Higher education institutions such as universities serve a special role in nurturing innovation. This paper investigates learning environments in Alfaisal University in Riyadh, how they stimulate innovative competence, students' perception of their competence and their perception of learning environment on campus to foster innovation. Data collection was carried out through a voluntary and anonymous online survey over a period of 16 days. A total of 60 students responded comprising of 31 females and 29 males. Results of a survey among students of various engineering programs in the university is presented. The survey instrument uses a 7-point scale response format to assess (i) classroom learning environment (ii) innovation competence and (iii) relevance of innovation competence. Students have the highest degree of self-confidence for their innovative competence with the creativity scale getting the highest average rating with mean and standard deviation of 6.64 and 1.69, respectively. In contrast, students gave the lowest average rating with mean and standard deviation of 4.65. and 1.46, respectively, for scale focussing on innovative competence when assessing relevance of innovation competence. However, the high standard deviation shows a large spread of perception among students' perception. The results suggest engineering curricula need to explicitly teach and assess innovation competence and students' learning goal must include innovation competence. It is also found that perception of students in this study were consistently higher than those in Netherlands assessed using a similar instrument.
... Academic self-concept stands for one's current belief or perception about the ability to perform in a particular academic domain based on interpreted experiences gained in the environment and through interaction with others (Gasa et al., 2018). It is a facilitator of success in educational settings (Marsh & Craven, 2006), and a key psychological construct. ...
... Thus, early studies of Olowu (1986), and Trusty, Peck, & Mathews (1994), reported that students of high SES had significantly higher self-concept than those of low SES. Opposing these findings is a new study of Gasa et al. (2018) presenting no significant relationship between the selfconcept and any of the three components of socioeconomic status. However, a limitation to this study could be a very small sample size of 31 learners only. ...
The aim of this study is to enrich the understanding of student-level mechanisms involved in shaping (in)equity in educational outcomes in Sweden and Ukraine by examining the role of academic self-beliefs in science, represented by motivational constructs of self-concept, interest and utility value, as mediators of the association between student socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement in science.
A link to the master thesis: https://doi.org/2077/62909
... On the other hand, the findings of this examination fundamentally uncover that there is no measurably significant connection between the perception of self-concept and any of the three parts of the socio-economic factor (Vyas & Choudhary, 2017). Whereas, another study was led which demonstrates that fundamental financial components) do influence students' self-esteem (Gasa, Pitsoane, Molepo, & Lethole, 2018). ...
Introduction:Self-esteem and Life satisfaction assume a more prominent role in human development. There are a few components like Age, Gender and SocioEconomic status which influence self-esteem and life satisfaction. Socioeconomic status of a nation may be a factor in people's rating of their life satisfaction. Self-esteem has positive relation with students' academic learning Methods: A descriptive correlational study was conducted at Lahore School of Nursing, The University of Lahore. Data was gathered by nursing students of BSN and Post RN. Questionnaire which was used in this study was Self-esteem inventory and Life Satisfaction scale. Reliability of the scale test by Chronbach alpha. Data was analysed by SPSS and using Pearson correlation test to see the relationship between self-esteem and life satisfaction and socioeconomic status of the nursing students. Results: Results shows a positive correlation between self-esteem and life satisfaction. Pearson correlation level was 1.000 and p value was .000 on 0.05 confidence level of interval which shows negative correlation results. Results also revealed a positive correlation of socioeconomic status with self-esteem and life satisfaction. Conclusions: it is concluded that the relationship of socioeconomic status life satisfaction and self-esteem of the students affects their learning. High level of socioeconomic status can boost the self-esteem and life satisfaction of the students
Based on the self-system processes model of motivation, we explored the mediating role of academic self-concept in the relationship between perseverance of effort and self-assessment. The results showed that perseverance of effort has a positive but not statistically significant association with self-assessment when controlling academic self-concept. The results supported our hypotheses that academic self-concept, whether at the domain-specific or component-specific level, significantly mediated the effect of the perseverance of effort on self-assessment, lending empirical support to the closer conceptual link between self-perceptions and self-assessment practices in learning. The results contribute to the literature of the three research lines (grit, academic self-concept and self-assessment) and suggest that academic self-concept enhancement interventions are beneficial not only to academic achievement based on the reciprocal relationship that has been well documented in the self-concept literature but also to self-assessment in the light of the self-system processes model of motivation.
