Self-esteem as predictor of academic stress among undergraduates

Pages: 1545-1547
Mehfooz Ahmad (Clinical Psychologist, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh)
Mutafa Nadeem Kirmani (Department of Clinical Psychology, SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryaana)
Vivek Kumar Jha (Department of Audiology & Speech Language Pathology, SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryaana)

Self-esteem is a subjective personal valuation. It shows a cognitive attitude and emotional feeling about one’s own ability, significance, and worth. Self esteem affects the thinking process, emotions, desires, values and goals in a person. It has been seen in various studies that the self-esteem influence academic stress of college going youth. The purpose of the study was to examine self-esteem as predictor of academic stress among undergraduates. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and Scale for Assessing Academic Stress (SAAS) were administered on 64 students age ranging from 18-25 years. Obtained data was analyzed with multiple regression analysis. In the present study self-esteem has been found to be predicting academic stress among undergraduate students.