Self-esteem of Adolescent students in relation to Gender Variation

Authors:

Kabita Gurung

Pages: 15 - 18

Abstract:

Self-esteem can be defined as an individual’s attitude about himself or herself, involving self- evaluation along a positive negative dimension. Self-esteem and achievement are interrelated to each other’s. Usually, children with higher self-esteem are somewhat more likely to achieve in school, although the strength of the relationship differ from individual to individual, depending on the characteristics of the students. Factor like gender is found to have great influence on the self-esteem of the students. Adolescence is the most crucial and significant period of an individual’s life therefore; more attention needs to be paid to it to provide them all required help to develop positive self-esteem. Hence the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of gender on self-esteem of adolescent students. It is a descriptive study and focused on 100 students of East Sikkim.  Battle’s Self-Esteem Inventory for Children (SEIC) developed by Dr. Anand Kumar (1988) is used as a tool. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the interpretation of the scores. Students’ level of self-esteem was found not to be significantly associated with their gender orientation