Additional modified models suggest a positive effect of change in achievement on contemporaneous change in self-concept¶
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q2 i? A modified STARTS model and a modified LCSM on the simulated PALMA-like data indicated that latent change in achievement had a positive effect on contemporaneous latent change in self-concept. → Kimmo Sorjonen 2025
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Kimmo Sorjonen 2025¶
Kimmo Sorjonen, Bo Melin, Gustav Nilsonne. (2025). Inconclusive Evidence for a Prospective Effect of Academic Self-Concept on Achievement: A Simulated Reanalysis and Comment on Marsh et al. (2024). Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10008-4
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Modified LCSM fitted on the simulated PALMA-like data (acceptable fit: χ2 = 1324, DF = 46, CFI = 0.947, RMSEA = 0.089). The article reports "a positive effect of change in achievement on contemporaneous change in self-concept" (b = 0.277 [0.265; 0.288], p < 0.001); the modified STARTS also fit well (χ2 = 266, CFI = 0.991).
"This interpretation was validated by a modified LCSM (Fig. 2B), where latent change in achievement had a positive effect on contemporaneous latent change in self-concept (b = 0.277 [0.265; 0.288], p < 0.001)"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Academic Self-Concept — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- LCSM on the same simulated PALMA-like data shows negative cross-lagged effects, contradicting the reciprocal effects model — reports the opposite
- Good fit of the ESDM indicates the PALMA data could have been generated without any prospective effects between achievement and self-concept — related
- STARTS model shows a positive effect of prior achievement on subsequent self-concept but no effect of prior self-concept on subsequent achievement — related
- Correcting the wave-1 change-score misspecification in Sorjonen et al.'s LCSM yields a proper solution with positive effects between academic self-concept and achievement — related
- A latent change score model of correlated initial levels and change scores of self-concepts and comparison-related beliefs fits the data well — related
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Additional modified models suggest a positive effect of change in achievement on contemporaneous change in self-concept |
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Additional modified models suggest a positive effect of change in achievement on contemporaneous change in self-concept |
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