Master's Theses

Department

Social Work

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Abstract

The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the effects of a continuing education course designed to improve adults' self-concepts. The independent variables investigated were gender, age, and implementation-no implementation. The dependent variables were the scores of the following ten subscales from the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale: (1) Identity, (2) Satisfaction, (3) Behavior, (4) Physical Self, (5) Moral-Ethical Self, (6) Personal Self, (7) Family Self, (8) Social Self, (9) Self-Criticism, and (10) Total Self. A pretest and posttest two groups with an extra control group design was employed. Four hypotheses were tested at the .05 level of significance and all four hypotheses were rejected. A total of 40 preplanned and ten “post hoc” comparisons were made. Significant F values were found for subscales Behavior, Family Self, and Social Self indicating that the control group had significantly larger adjusted post-mean scores than the implementation group. “Post Hoc” tests for repeated measures were made for the participating group for each of the ten subscales. The post-test mean scores were significantly larger at the .05 level than the corresponding pretest mean scores for the following subscales: Identity, Behavior, Moral-Ethical Self, Personal Self, Family Self, and Total Self. Significant F values were found for subscales Identity, Self-Criticism, and Moral-Ethical Self Indicating that male participants scored significantly higher than female participants. A significant F value was found for the subscale Behavior indicating that those participating who were 40-70 years of age had a larger adjusted post-mean than those who were 23-39 years of age. A comparison of post-mean scores only generated significant F values for subscales Identity, Satisfaction, Behavior, Physical Self, Moral-Ethical Self, Family Self, Social Self, and Total Self Indicating that for the eight subscales which had significant main effects, the participating group had the lowest post-mean scores. The results of this study appeared to support the following generalizations: that those who participated compared to a control group showed no improvement, pretest and post-test comparisons Indicated that those who participated showed improvement for six of ten subscales, participating males showed a greater change in self-concept than participating females, and older participants had a greater change in self-concept pertaining to behavior than younger participants.

Keywords

Counseling, Self-perception, Students, Omaha (Neb.), Tennessee self concept scale, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Analysis

Advisor

Dr. Bill C. Daley

Date of Award

Fall 1986

Document Type

Thesis - campus only access

Rights

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