Self Esteem Research

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background of problem

William James and Mead (1890) were among the first theorist in psychology to come up with the concept of self-esteem. They said that self-esteem was equivalent to success of a person divided by his or her pretensions (Okoko, 2012). A students self esteem is commonly affected during their teen years . Physical , psychological , intellectual and social changes can be a very stressful time in a young adults life . Due to this developmental predicaments and demands for more adult like behavior ,adolescents strive to behave according to adult values , goals and ideals (Mc Namara,2000). According to Mc Namara (2000) ,it is during this time that adolescence begin to develop negative or positive perceptions of themselves
Due to the significance of self esteem, educators have a need to learn more about its development and how it affects academic achievement (Hamacheck, 1990). Poor self esteem during the developmental period of adolescence could result in a variety of risk such as juvenile delinquency , teenage pregnancy ,drug abuse , depression and low academic success (Hamacheck, 1990)
1.3 Problem
Self –esteem can be crucial to students of all ages and can effect their outlook on daily life therefore the problem discussed in this research is Self esteem and how academic performance can effect it . Besides that , the secondary purpose so teachers and guardians can have a look on how they can learn and recognize ways in which they can foster self-esteem within their students .
1.3 Objective
Even though there are positive findings that there is in fact a strong relationship between self esteem and academic performances there are those that do not take it seriously . Therefore the object...

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According to figure 4.5 , students believe that how a teachers teach can effect they confidence in the subject . The majority of the respondents have voted that yes they strongly agree . Therefore ,it has come to my conclusion that teachers have a big role when it comes to self esteem of their students . The ability to help cultivate a students self esteem need to be taken seriously by teachers . This research can be backup up by that of Okoko, which concluded that teachers have an effect on students self esteem and academic performance (Okoko, 2012) .
Due to the fact tat most student believe that teachers can effect their self esteem it was asked what could teachers do to improve this . A large amount of students indicated that they would prefer when the teachers communicates with them in a respective manner