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Predictors of Self-Esteem

The Roles of Parent-Child Perceptions, Achievement, and Class Placement

Edward Morvitz, PhD, earned his doctorate in school and community psychology at Hofstra University, New York. Dr. Morvitz has worked as a school psychologist on Long Island for the past 14 years and is in private practice working with children, adults, and families. His current research interests are the effects of special education placement, grade retention, parental attitudes, and parental divorce on children's self-esteem. Address: Edward Morvitz, 14 Gloria Place, Plainview, NY 11803.

Robert W. Motta

Robert W. Motta received his doctorate in school-community psychology from Hofstra University in 1975. He is currently the director of doctoral programs in professional psychology at Hofstra, is a Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology, and is in private practice in Long Island, New York. Dr. Motta is certified in school psychology, is past president of the School Psychology Division of the New York State Psychological Association, and i a member of National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. His current research interests are in the area of familial effects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and on treatments of PTSD. Dr. Motta is a reviewer for the Journal of Traumatic Stress.

This study examined the relative influence on children's self-esteem of academic achievement, maternal self-esteem, maternal acceptance, and children's perception of their parents' acceptance of them. Subjects were students with learning disabilities in a self-contained class (n=31), similarly diagnosed students in resource room (n=35), students in compensatory education (n=30), and nondisabled students (n=30) from Grades 3 through 6. Results showed that for the self-contained group, a child's perception of maternal and paternal acceptance plus the child's academic achievement score accounted for 58% of the variance in the child's self-esteem. None of the independent variables accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in the compensatory education and regular class groups. The self-esteem of the regular class students was significantly higher than that of the resource room students and the compensatory education students, but not significantly higher than that of the self-contained students.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 25, No. 1, 72-80 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949202500111


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