Analysis of Stage 1 Data: Tennessee Self-Concept Questionnaire

Abstract

This chapter reports and analyses the self-concept survey questionnaire data for the female and male students with intellectual disabilities. The self-concept analysis is undertaken on the basis of the Tennessee Self-Concept Manual (Fitts and Warren 2003) and follows the six dimensions namely Physical, Moral Personal, Family, Social and Academic Self-Concepts and thus, Total Self-Concept. In addition, the four validity scores namely Inconsistent Responding (INC), Self-Criticism (SC), Faking Good (FG) and Response Distribution (RD) for all students with intellectual disabilities are also provided. The findings reveal that while the majority of the students with intellectual disabilities obtained low scores in Physical, Moral, Personal, Family, Social, Academic and Total Self-Concepts, half of the female students with intellectual disabilities obtained average that is normal scores in Family, Social and Academic Self-Concepts.