Self-Concept and its Relation to Age, Family Structure, and Gender in Head Start Children

Abstract

Summary Ninety-two Head Start children responded to the Piers Preschool Pictorial Self-Concept Scale. The scale scores were highly reliable as evidenced by test-retest and split-half correlations. The relationship between scale scores and age, family structure, or gender was negligible; but responses to a number of scale items differed significantly when subjects were compared by gender or family structure. An exploratory factor analysis yielded four interpretable factors for the scale.