Validação da Escala de Autoconceito e Autoestima para Pré-adolescentes (EAAPA) e Análise da Estrutura Organizativa do Autoconceito.

The main goal of this research was the analysis of the psychometric proprieties of a self-concept and selfesteem scale and the study of the self-concept organizational structure in pre-adolescents. Participants were 774 Portuguese students attending 5th and 6th grades. The scale used assesses seven specific dimensions of self-concept (school competence, athletic competence, social acceptance, physical appearance, native language competence, mathematics competence, behavior), as well as self-esteem. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the multidimensionality of self-concept, and a bi-factor model with two global factors (academic self-concept and non-academic self-concept) was the one that presented a better fit. This model enables to integrate structural characteristics of self-concept that seemed to be incompatible in previous research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]