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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale

JAMES A. WALSH

University of Montana

GREGORY L. WILSON

Washington State University

ROBERT W. McLELLARN

Portland, Oregon

The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS) has been widely used to examine systematic differences in self-concept between incarcerated and nonincarcerated populations and to assess the effects of treatment programs for incarcerated groups. Fitts (1965) originally constructed the TSCS to measure five external aspects of self-concept, three internal aspects, and 15 "facets" created by crossing the internal and external dimensions. Over a period of some years, methodological questions have been raised about the validity of the TSCS. Most of these studies have used factor analytic approaches designed to provide optimal condensations of response data, and their results have not supported Fitts's structure. The present study used confirmatory factor analysis, a technique specifically designed to test hypothesized dimensionality, to examine the TSCS and provides some support for its hypothesized structure.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 4, 465-472 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854889016004006
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