The majority of self-concept and sociometric research on crippled
children has been comparative studies in which the disabled child has
been a minority member within a group of physically normal children.
This study takes a different avenue in that it investigated the self-concept and peer reputation of physically handicapped children...
The purpose of this paper was to study the relationship between
a child's self concept and his social acceptance, following the Mead-Cooley symbolic interactionist framework. The specific objective
of the study was to determine whether or not there is a relationship
between the child's concept of himself and the degree...