تطور مفهوم الذات لدى الأطفال

Abstract EN

The goal of the current research is to identify the Self-Concept for children according to the age of (5, 6, and 7 years).

These variable1 can be shown as follow: A - Age (5, 6, and 7) years .

B - Gender (male - female) The present study shows that there is no statistically significant differences between the averages of the age of children (5, 6, and 7) years in self-concept, and sex variable (male - female) .The research sample consists of (230) boys and girls, they have been selected by class style randomly from kindergarten and elementary schools affiliated to Al Rusafa in the province of Baghdad.

For the purpose of achieving the objectives of the research ,the researchers formulaes a suitable instrument for the research sample, so the researcher uses a tool to measure the evolution of self-concept in children aged (5, 6 and 7) years, it was rely on the theory of Carl Rogers and some previous studies on this concept, which was to reach for five dimensions to measure self-concept that includes ( Physical-self dimension, mental-self dimension, social-self dimension, emotional-self dimension, moral-self dimension) .

This tool consists of (42) paragraph, that reflects the truth of virtual scale, discrimination paragraphs, in addition it is distinguishing the relationship between the paragraph degree with the total degree of the standard, and the link of the paragraph degree with the area degree, and it has been verified the stability of the standard by re-testing it, which was (0.75), and coefficient of Alvacrobach, in order to calculate the stability of (internal consistency) for the standard which was (0.84), which makes the standard ready for the final application.