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Self-Esteem in Girls Attending Single-Sex vs. Coed Private High Schools, 1975

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Self-Esteem in Girls Attending Single-Sex vs. Coed Private High Schools, 1975
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FSZ21E
 
Creator Ross, Margaret C.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description These data were collected in order to examine self-esteem in 11th grade high school girls attending single-sex versus coeducational private schools in a large northeastern city.



A total of 50 students were tested: 32 in the single-sex school and 18 in the coeducational school. The participants were 16 or 17 years old and of mostly upper-middle socioeconomic level. Data were collected in the 11th grade classrooms in the fall of 1975.



The package of instruments used consisted of four verbal Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cues; the "Who am I?" test, which elicits 10 different open-ended responses to that question; "The Way I Am" and "The Way I Would Like to Be" scales, which are modified Q-sort descriptions of self and ideal self; and finally, a one-page general information questionnaire consisting of short answer questions about age, family, education, and extracurricular activities.




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Subject Social Sciences
 
Type field study