A Study on Self-esteem among School-going Adolescents in Murshidabad District

The primary objective of the current investigation is to examine the self-esteem among school-going adolescents in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. A cross-sectional survey research framework was conducted in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, including a sample of 418 school-going adolescents who were living in rural areas. The samples were collected using a simple random sampling technique. The data was collected Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE, 1995) via a questionnaire that was developed by Morris Rosenberg. The study’s primary results revealed that the present status of self-esteem score of school-going adolescents in Murshidabad was 29.48. The findings of the study indicate that female students exhibited a greater level of self-esteem in comparison to their male counterparts. Additionally, students from joint family backgrounds showed higher levels of self-esteem when compared to students from nuclear family backgrounds. Furthermore, it was seen that students belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category had higher levels of self-esteem in comparison to students from the General, Scheduled Caste (SC), and Scheduled Tribe (ST) categories. All these distinctions (Gender, family type and social caste) were statistically significant (p<0.05).