Marsh's Self-Description Questionnaire III (SDQ III): adaptation study with portuguese college students

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1996

Authors

Luísa Faria (Author) FPCEUP

Journal

Title: Social Behavior and Personality

Vol. 24 No. 4

Pages: 343-350

ISSN: 0301-2212

Publisher: Society for Personality Research

Indexing

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology

FOS: Social sciences > Psychology

Other information

DOI: 10.2224/sbp.1996.24.4.343

Abstract (EN): The Self Description Questionnaire III (SDQ III) is one of a series of Australian self-concept instruments designed to measure self-concept of pre-adolescents (SDQ I), in early to middle adolescents (SDQ II), late adolescents and early adults (SDQ III). It was designed by Marsh (1988) and is based on the Shavelson, Hubner, and Stanton (1976) hierarchical and multidimensional model. This study presents the various steps followed in the adaptation of this Australian self-concept instrument using 691 Portuguese college students from Northern Portugal. In general the internal consistency of the instrument, assessed by Cronbach's alpha, proved to be good and similar to the Australian version, but the factorial structure of the Portuguese version revealed twelve factors instead of thirteen of the original scale. The presence of the global self-concept dimension in several factors questions its independence from the ether dimensions in the Portuguese version.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific