Abstract
The new approaches in the field of high capacities, compared to the topic of considering only intelligence as a fundamental element in their identification, opt for a wide range of qualities and dimensions to be taken into account in detection. Among them, self-concept appears as the mental self-image of the subject. This construct and its relationship with other variables, such as the academic performance or the sex of schoolchildren, could be influential factors in the strikingly low figures for the diagnosis of students with high abilities and negative results in international performance evaluations. To verify the relationship between these variables, we conducted a quantitative research to evaluate the general and academic self-concept in a sample of 118 subjects of 4th, 5th and 6th grade of Primary Education, including school children with high diagnostic abilities. The Piers Harris Self-concept Scale has been used. The results show a positive correlation between general and academic self-concept and academic performance, not finding a relationship between self-concept and gender, high ability, age and course. In this way, specific actions should be favored, from the teaching and learning processes themselves, in favor of improving the students' self-concept, keeping in mind their academic performance. The welfare of schoolchildren should be a fundamental premise of the teaching practice.
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