Part I: Defining the Self -- -- Self as narrative : the place of life history in studying the life span / Mark Freeman -- A multidimensional, hierarchical self-concept / Herbert W. Marsh, Barbara M. Byrne, and Richard J. Shavelson -- An experiential-developmental framework and methodology to study the transformations of the self-concept from infancy to old age / René L'Écyer -- -- Part II: Measuring the Self -- -- Reporting about the self : issues and implications / Thomas M. Brinthaupt and L. Jeanette Erwin -- Multigroup comparisons in self-concept research : reexamining the assumption of equivalent structure and measurement / Barbara M. Byrne, Richard J. Shavelson, and Herbert W. Marsh -- Significant others in self-esteem development : methods and problems in measurement / Anne McCreary Juhasz -- He's such a nice boy ... when he's with Grandma : gender and evaluation in self-with-other representations / Richard D. Ashmore and Daniel M. Ogilvie -- Self-understanding development in cross-cultural perspective / Daniel Hart and Wolfgang Edelstein.