An investigation of self-concept and body image in the mentally retarded

Abstract

Explored the relationship of self‐drawings to scores on a measure of self‐concept in a sample of 31 mentally retarded Ss. Five variables hypothesized to be related to self‐concept including overall self‐drawing score, size of self‐drawing, age, sex, and IQ were subjected to forward (stepwise) multiple regression analysis. Data analysis revealed that four of the five variables shared significant variance with self‐concept scores. It is suggested that these variables can provide additional information in evaluating the self‐concept of the mentally retarded.

Special education labeling relationships with learning disabled student self-concept

“…Studies have used matching and statistical manipulations to control for some of these potentially confounding variables in self-concept research, but none have gone so far as to address all of the variables which this research will consider. (Boersma, Chapman & Battle, 1979;Legette, 1979;McIntyre & Drummond, 1977;Ottenbacher, 1981).19 18These researchers also examined significant others' perceptions: Good & Dembo, 1973;Gottlieb, 1974: Jones, 1972Mayer, 1965;Prieto & McCoy, 1979;Ysseldyke & Foster, 1978. 19Additional studies in self-concept addressing a number of variables have been carried out by: Rosenberg, 1979;Trowbridge, 1972. 124 CHAPTER III…”

“…Past studies examined one or two of the variables influencing self-concept (Boersma, Chapman, & Battle, 1979;Legette, 1979: McIntrye & Drummond, 1977: Ottenbacher, 1981. Previous labeling studies primarily probed significant others' perceptions of student self-concept rather than feelings held by the labeled student (Algozzine, Mercer & Countermine, 1977: Budoff & Siperstein, 1978: Foster, 1976, Smith and Greenberg, 1975.…”

Social Comparisons, Stigma and Mainstreaming: The Self Esteem of Young Adults With a Mild Mental Handicap

“…Self esteem measurement especially seemed to have lost focus, with self esteem being measured in a variety of creative, but idiosyncratic ways (e.g. Carr & McLaughlin, 1973;Nooe, 1977;Oliver, 1986;Ottenbacher, 1981;Vinter, Mounod & Husain, 1983;Wysocki & Wysocki, 1973).…”

Human figure drawing in adults: An update of the empirical evidence, 1967–1982.

“…A number of global figure drawing measures have been successfully related to various criterion measures among normal and clinical populations: articulation scores with the complexity of personal constructs as measured by Kelly's Role Construct Repertory Technique (Phillips & Phillips, 1976); H-T-P diagnoses with MMP1 diagnoses (Pryor & Butler, 1969); Koppitz intellectual maturity scores and Witkin's psychological differentiation scores with a self-concept questionnaire (Jegede & Bamboye, 1981); sexual elaboration with eight of 12 criterion measures of psychopathology (Carlson et al, 1973); overall DAP score with the Piers-Harris self-concept scale (Ottenbacher, 1981); Witkin's articulation scale with Oltman's measure of psychological differentiation and with five of six ratings of subject psychological differentiation done by therapists (Russakoff, Fbntana, Dowds, & Harris, 1976); global organicity rating and a Projec-tive Impairment Rating scale of organicity with the Wechsler-Bellevue and modified Halstead-Reitan organicity measures (McLachlan & Head, 1974); and complexity scores with self-descriptions as extraordinary, non-average, primitive, and sensual (Sallery, 1968).…”