ERIC Number: EJ1019678
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 9
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Friendship Predictors of Global Self-Worth and Domain-Specific Self-Concepts in University Students with and without Learning Disability
Shany, Michal; Wiener, Judith; Assido, Michal
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v46 n5 p444-452 Sep-Oct 2013
This study investigated the association among friendship, global self-worth, and domain-specific self-concepts in 102 university students with and without learning disabilities (LD). Students with LD reported lower global self-worth and academic self-concept than students without LD, and this difference was greater for women. Students with LD also reported that they had more stable friendships than students without LD. Students with LD were more likely to have higher global self-worth and self-perceptions of social acceptance if they had stable friendships and had relationships where they communicated spontaneously and frankly. None of the friendship variables predicted academic self-concept. Thus, having stable and intimate friendships is a protective factor in relation to global self-worth and social self-concept in university students with LD.
Descriptors: Correlation, Predictor Variables, Friendship, Self Esteem, Self Concept, College Students, Learning Disabilities, Interpersonal Relationship, Resilience (Psychology), Gender Differences, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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