Self-concept of child vendors in the streets

The objectives of this study were (1) to determine what is the child vendors\u27s profile according to the following variable sex, educational status, parental employment and working conditions (2) to determine the level of self-concept child vendors have according to sex, educational status, parental employment and working conditions (3) to test whether there is a significant difference between the self-concept of males and females self-concept of child vendors who are still studying and dropped out from school self-concept of child vendors under pleasant working condition and unpleasant working condition. The study made use of a descriptive type of research design. The study involved 60 street child vendors of which 30 were males and 30 were females, aged 9-14, working in the vicinity of the four major cities of Metro Manila. Subjects were purposively chosen among the pool of vendors of the four cities. The respondents were interviewed and at the same time were given the 80 item Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale which was translated into Filipino by the researchers subjected to the approval by a Filipino teacher. With the use of the t-test between two means at .10 alpha level of significance, for the variables sex, educational status and working conditions and the Single Factor Analysis of Variance for the variable parental employment, findings showed that only the mean scores of males and females under the variable sex had a significant difference