User:Scarpy/The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale

The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS). The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (Fitts & Warren, 1996) is a widely used self-report measure consisting of six self-concept scales (physical, moral, personal, family, social and academic/ work) that yield a total summary score for total self-concept and conflict. Respondents are asked to report how true each statement is about them using a five-point scale ranging from Completely False to Completely True. Negatively worded items are reverse scored. A summed score for a subscale between 40 and 60 is considered within normal limits, while scores above 70 and below 30 are considered outside of the desirable range. A fairly substantial revision was undertaken with the TSCS recently so that some items were eliminated and some added. Over the period of this study, both the older and the newer version of the scale were used, preventing a more complete analysis of the data. We cross-walked the old version ofthe scale onto the new version and were able to analyze the primary subscales, less the academic scale. We were also unable to compute a total score without substantial imputation of missing data (any respondent missing more than 25% ofthe items was excluded from the analyses). $$$$