Relationship Between Academic Stress and Self Esteem in Post-Covid Times: A Study Among College Students in Kerala

COVID-19 has brought about a drastic change in the education system. What were once blackboards and chalks are now cameras and mute buttons. The abrupt change in the medium of education has had a negative impact on students’ psychological well-being. The present study traces the relationship among academic stress, socio-economic status, and self-esteem. Socio-economic status is a composite economic and sociological measure of an individual’s work experience, economic access to personal or family resources, and social status in relation to others. Self-esteem is how we value and perceive ourselves, based on opinions and beliefs about yourself that are difficult to change. How much you love and value yourself as a person can have an impact on your self-esteem. To carry out the study, a sample of 60 college students from SCMS College, Cochin was given the questionnaire. Data collection was done as a survey using tools like the Academic Stress Scale by Kim (1970), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale by Morris Rosenberg (1965), and a socio-demographic sheet. By the end of the study, through the method of one-way ANOVA, it was evident that socio-economic status and self-esteem are positively correlated.