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Title: An Ecological Examination of the Self-Esteem of Students Receiving Special Education Services
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1. Thompson, M. Dewana
An Ecological Examination of the Self-Esteem of Students Receiving Special Education Services
M.A. Thesis, Michigan State University, 1995
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Education; Educational Attainment; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Education; Self-Esteem

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between the self esteem levels of students in special education programs and maternal self esteem levels, maternal expectations, academic achievement and the home environment. Research examining the self esteem of this population of students has typically used school related variables as sole predictors of self esteem and examined between group differences. This study addresses these deficits by exploring within group differences from an ecological perspective. A secondary analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set was conducted. The sample included 208 children between the ages of 8 and 15 who were enrolled in remedial special education classes and their mothers. This study found that children that had higher perceptions of their academic and global ability were in fact high academic achievers and had mothers that expected them to attain higher levels of education. Children with higher leve ls of se lf esteem did not have mothers with higher levels of self esteem or come from more supportive home environments, but significant relationships amongst the predictor variables suggests that there may be indirect relationships between these variables and child self esteem and warrants further research.
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Thompson, M. Dewana. An Ecological Examination of the Self-Esteem of Students Receiving Special Education Services. M.A. Thesis, Michigan State University, 1995.