A comparative study of self-esteem of advantaged and disadvantaged children

Pages: 410-414
Heena Parveen (Department of Psychology, Noida International University, Noida)
Mehmudunnisa, Zareena Jabeen and Naima A. Gulrez (Department of Psychology, Aligarh University, Aligarh, U.P.)

An important concern of social sciences particularly psychology is to focus on researches which would contribute towards enhancement of quality of life and alleviating problems, which prevents individuals from achieving their highest potential? Children who are the future, architects of our society should be given special attention. The way of self evaluation along a positive and negative dimension, play an important role in the development of self-esteem among school children. In the present paper an attempt was made to find out the factors which help in self evaluation and how young students suffer from and how can we help them. This is an area which should be taken up for serious study. The objective of present study was to compare the self esteem of children studying in advantaged and disadvantaged school conditions. The sample of the study comprised of 100 adolescent students. 50 from advantaged school drawn from the Al Barkat public School, Aligarh affiliated to CBSC New Delhi and 50 from Union School of Aligarh.