Self-Esteem Among Undergraduate Students of West Bengal: A Comparative Study

Abstract

The present study aims to explore the self-esteem of undergraduate students with certain personal demographic and institutional variables. The researcher applied a descriptive survey method to this study.The sample of the study consisted of One Thirty-Seven undergraduate students of different general degree colleges from the district North 24 Parganas of West Bengal. The Self-Esteem scale developed by Heatherton, T.F. and Polivy, J. (1991) was administered to collect the data.The result of the study reveals that undergraduate students did not differ significantly in theirSelf-Esteem with respect to their gender, locality and type of college management.