Achievement and its relationship to self-concept and other factors

Abstract

This study was undertaken to find the relationship of achievement to self-concept, socioeconomic status, intelligence, sex and age either singly or severally.

The subjects were 667 regular fourth year high school students of the Iloilo Provincial High School, Iloilo City, for the year 1972-1973, who were classified and reclassified according to their responses to a validated self-concept inventory, a socioeconomic questionnaire, and a mental ability test; and according to sex and to age.

As indices of their achievement the standard scores of the samples’ responses to validated, and correlated tests in Literature, Physics and Grammar-Composition were added, and the result, transmuted into derived scores, all of which became the sources of data for the study.