A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' ...

In a recent perspective review, researchers attempt to collate and discuss scientific knowledge on the concept of the ‘immune self’ and use raw T cell assays, nine amino-long pathogen-derived peptides ...

During the elementary-school years, a child's world expands dramatically to include not only their family and playmates but a widening circle of schoolmates and adults. In this enlarged environment, ...

This study was designed to provide psychometric and developmental information for a caregiver report and observational measure of young children's self-concept. The Caregiver Inventory of Self-Concept ...

In last week's column I wrote about the importance of having an accurate self-concept about who you really are. I promised that this week I would offer you some very practical steps for discovering ...

The developmental psychologist and genetic epistemologist, Jean Piaget, investigated the cognitive development of children. He identified four stages from the sensorimotor period, culminating at 2 ...