Exploring self-esteem and hopelessness among students: Correlational analysis

Pages: 1179-1181
Mehfooz Ahmad (Clinical Psychologist, Bijnor, Utter Pradesh)
Mustafa Nadeem Kirmani (Department of Clinical Psychology, SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryana)

Self esteem is a negative and positive attitude of the individual toward oneself. It is an evaluative aspect of self-concept. Self-esteem is an outcome of one’s life experiences and feedback from others. Hopelessness is a product of a key belief that the future will yield poor outcomes that one cannot influence these outcomes, and that trying to do so really is not worthwhile. The current study aimed at examining the relationship between self esteem and hopelessness. Rosenberg’s Self-esteem and Beck’s Hopelessness scale were used to collect data from 70 undergraduate students in Bijnor, UP. Karl Pearson Product Moment correlation was used to analyze the date. The result revealed that there was negative correlation between self-esteem and hopelessness. The current study has implications for college going students.