Adolescents’ belief in their selves: A study of self-esteem and locus of control

Pages: 66-70
Selene Khosla (Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU, New Delhi)

With an aim to explore how the constructs of self-esteem and locus of control are related among adolescents, a sample consisted of 100 adolescents between the age group of 15-19, studying in Delhi-NCR was chosen. Rosenberg’s “Self-esteem Scale” (1965) with Levenson’s “Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale” (1981) was employed to assess self-esteem along with locus of control (respectively). Being correlational in nature, it was undertaken to understand as well as explore the relationship between these two constructs. It was found that a positive correlation exists between the aforementioned variables. Significant differences with respect to gender, were found as well.