Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
PSPCSAYC is a pictorial scale of perceived competence and social acceptance for young children, tapping 4 domains with 6 items each: cognitive competence, physical competence, peer acceptance, and maternal acceptance. Items differ somewhat for some scales across the two age levels. For the PSPCSAYC, factor analyses reveal a 2‐factor solution. The first factor, general competence, is defined by the cognitive and physical competence subscales. The second factor, social acceptance, comprises the peer and maternal acceptance subscales. It is urged that this instrument not be viewed as a general self‐concept scale but be treated as a measure of 2 separate constructs: perceived competence and social acceptance. However, the PCSC has factors of cognitive, social, physical, and general self‐worth.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Keywords
Self awareness
Respondent
Student
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Harter, S. (1982). The Perceived Competence Scale for Children. Child Development, 53, 87‐97.
Harter, S. & Pike, R. (1984). The pictorial scale of perceived competence and social acceptance for young
children. Child Development, 55, 1969‐1982
