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The self-concept is a fundamental variable in education for being an element that moderates and intervenes importantly in the learning processes, as well as playing a leading role in the development of the personality of the individual. From the theoretical review of self-concept, an educational intervention program was conducted for improvement. This was done to show that a workshop, led in this regard, will help the self-concept, as well students' academic performance will be positively affected after its application within the School´s real context. This was a longitudinal study of quasi-experimental comparison groups pretest-posttest measurement, with a control group and an experimental group of secondary school students of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The average students´ age from the overall sample (60 students) was 14.18 years (± 0.46). Of these, 55% were male (n=33) and 45% were females (n=27).
The study was conducted in five stages: an analysis for the evaluation of the reliability and validity of the scale used, the AF5 Questionnaire, Self-Concept Form 5 (García and Musitu, 2001), the initial application of this instrument, the implementation of the educational intervention program, which is based on socio- personal skills abilities to enhance multidimensional self-concept in secondary school students, titled "How to improve self-concept" (Sureda, 2001). Subsequently, the questionnaire was applied again to measure self-concept, and conducted analyzes of variance (ANOVA) of the variables to contrast the stated hypothesis.
The results showed that the program stimulated a marginally significant improvement of general of self-concept and social dimension as well as a significant improvement in the academic aspects of the intervention group. However, it did not confirm a significant improvement in academic performance in students, this possibly due to different constraints on the implementation. The discussion focuses on the importance of implementing such programs.
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