Impact of School Type on the Self-Concept of Female Adolescents: A Study of Single and Mixed Gender Institutions

Abstract

The term self-concept is a general term used to refer to how someone thinks about, evaluates or perceives themselves. To be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself. The present study focused on the evaluation of self-concept of high school girls studying in single and mixed gender schools of Nagpur city. For the study, a total of 100 students i.e. 50 single gender school girls and 50 mixed gender school girls of two English medium schools with age group of 12-15 years, mean age being 13.5 years were selected as samples and information was collected from them using the CHILDREN’S SELF CONCEPT SCALE (CSCS) by Dr. S.P. Ahluwalia (Haridwar). The English Version of the test was used. The collected raw data was converted statistically with the help of ‘t-test’. The results from the study reveal that girls studying in single gender schools have greater self-concept as compared to girls studying in mixed gender schools. The significant mean difference is found to be 5.92 which is significant at 0.01 level (*p=0.01).