Self-Esteem Manifestation in Students with High and Low Academic Achievement

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between self esteem and academic achievement by comparing academically high and low achievers on the various domains and over all self esteem as well. 512 randomly selected school/ college going adolescents between ages of 13 to 18 yrs were interviewed and assessed through Pakistani version of Adolescent form of Culture Free Self Esteem Inventories-3 (CFSEI-3; Imran & Ahmad, 2011), originally developed by Battle in 2002. t-tests were computed to investigate the difference on the specific domain and overall selfesteem among high and low academic achievement groups. Findings are in favor of high achievement group in all domains of self esteem i.e. Personal [t (349)= 5.117, p=.001]; Social [(t (349)= 3.137, p=.002]; Academic[(t (349)= 2.024, p=.004]; General [t (349)= 5.117, p=.001]; Parent/home related [t (349)= 3.302, p=.001]; and overall self esteem [t (349)= 5.225, p=.001]. The emerging findings gleaned from this work present guidance and provide a framework for the concerns that can effectively address the issue of low self-esteem among adolescent with low academic performance