Appropriate forms of the Self-concept and Motivation Inventory were administered to 308 girls and 299 boys in Grades 1 to 5 in December and May of a school year. Correlations were quite low suggesting the self-concept is very fluid and/or the inventory is quite unreliable for clinical use.
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