Importance of self esteem among students in academic performance and coping with stress

Pages:474-477
Pravakar Duari (Department of Applied psychology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry )
Pravakar Duari (Department of Applied psychology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry )

Self-esteem reflects a person’s overall self-appraisal on their own worth. Self-esteem is the dispositions to experience for student to become competent and to cope with the basic challenges of their life and of being worthy of happiness. Self-esteem is impotence concept for student for success, achievement, fulfillment, happiness in his/her life. Considering the importance, the study was designed to measure the self esteem of students. In the contemporary life-style, students are susceptible to stress in every phase of life. From the childhood to the late adulthood, stress acts as a threat to health-physical, psychological, social and spiritual. This two-group study includes 160 participants selected by random sampling method, out of which 80 males and 80 females. The subjects were administered by Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (1965) and Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen & Mermeistein, 1983) and the data were analyzed by means of ‘t’ test and Pearson ‘r’. The results revealed that female students were significantly higher in self esteem and than males. Self esteem was found to have significant positive relationship with academic performance. Self esteem was significantly negatively correlated with perceived stress among school students. Implications and future direction of the study have been discussed in light of related literature.