Abstract

MARTIN, María de Lourdes; CONTINI, Evangelina Norma  and  LACUNZA, Ana Betina. On self-concepts of secondary school adolescents. An analysis in vulnerable contexts. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2021, n.59, pp.251-274. ISSN 1668-8104.

Adolescence cannot be studied independently of its social and cultural framework. It has been proved that adolescents living in poverty go through a series of material and emotional deprivations that impact on their lifestyles. It has been found that early experiences and relationships with the affective environment influence their self-perception. The aim of this paper was to analyze the perception of self-concept by vulnerable adolescents from Tucumán who were attending the first and last stages of secondary school. It was a non-experimental, cross-sectional, and descriptive-comparative study design. The participants were 263 adolescents from the first and last year attending four secondary state schools in Great San Miguel de Tucumán (Argentina). The Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale, Casullo’s adaptation (1990) and a sociodemographic survey were administered. The first-year adolescents were found to refer more Popularity in relation to their graduating peers. Percentile categories were defined by taking the same sample as a normative group. Levels of the different dimensions of self-concept were established. 22% and 25% of first-year adolescents showed a higher level in the Body Image and Popularity dimensions, differing from their older peers. This research provided detailed data on the self-concept of adolescents who grow up in an unfavourable sociocultural environment. The school context variable did not affect the configuration of adolescents’ self-concept significantly

Keywords : Adolescence; Self-concept; School; Socioeconomic level.

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