The Family Environment and Self Esteem of Adolescents: A Correlational Study

Abstract

The present study was conducted to find out the family environment and self-esteem of adolescents in relation to their socio-economic status. For this study the data was collected by using tools – Family Environment Scale by Harpreet and Chadha and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The main objective of this study was to find out the extent to which family environment of an individual & self-esteem of adolescents. Socio-economic differences were also studied. Total sample consisted of 60 participants of class XI-XII of age group 15-19 years were taken from private school. Data was analysed by the correlational method. The result of the study indicates that there was no significant correlation between self-esteem, cohesion, expressiveness, independence and organisation among young adults from low socio-economic status. This indicates that may be different factors that influence self-esteem and social variable in population, compared to young adults from higher socio-economic status.