scholarly journals Relationship between personality traits and self-concept in high school students

2013 ◽  
pp. 551-562
Author(s):  
Mia Maric
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Relationship

In adolescence, there are significant changes in behavior, which are largely determined by personality traits and perceptions which adolescents have about themselves. The main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between basic personality dimensions of Eysenck model and certain aspects of self-concept among high school students. The sample consisted of 200 students in the second and fourth year of high school. The research results confirm the existence of significant correlation between all three investigated dimensions of personality and certain aspects of self-concept in adolescence. Thus, it was determined that neuroticism is positively associated with fear of negative evaluation, externality and low social desirability and negatively with loneliness. Extraversion is positively related to persistence, self-esteem and general life satisfaction, and negatively with the perceived incompetence, loneliness, fear of negative evaluation and externality, and low psychoticism is positively associated with persistence, self-esteem and general satisfaction, and negatively with the perceived incompetence and loneliness.

scholarly journals Self-esteem of high school students: A structural equation modelling analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-435
Author(s):  
Taner Atmaca ◽  
Hamit Ozen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Parental Pressure ◽  
Equation Modelling

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the parents’ success pressure, academic stress and fear of negative evaluation on high school students’ self-esteem. The relationships between self-esteem and parent’s pressure for academic success, fear of negative evaluation and academic stress on high school students were investigated employing structural equation modelling. The data were collected from 499 students studying at an Anatolian high school in Duzce province with purposeful sampling method. The characteristic of this school is a project school with successful students who get the highest score in the High School Entrance Examination. The result demonstrates that parental pressure for academic achievement on students and associated academic stress increase students’ fear of being evaluated negatively at school, which in turn affects students’ self-esteem. The fear of negative evaluation is a partial mediator between parental pressure and self-esteem, and full mediation between academic stress and self-esteem. Keywords: Parent pressure; fear of negative evaluation; academic stress; self-esteem, high school.  

scholarly journals The Relationship between Attitudes towards Physical Activity and Self-Esteem of High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
H. Fatih KUCUKIBIS ◽  
Mehmet GUL
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Study Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between attitudes towards physical activity and self-esteem of high school students. Three different scales were used on 626 adolescents in total who lived in Sivas, found by random sampling method. The first scale is “the Personal Information Scale” consisting of 6 items to determine the demographical characteristics of the participants; the second scale is “the Cognitive Behavioral Physical Activity Questionnaire (CBPA)”, which was developed by Schembre et al. (2015) and was adapted to Turkish by Eskiler et al. (2016) to determine the participants’ attitudes towards physical activity; and the last scale is “the Self-Esteem Scale” by Rosenberg (1965) and adapted to Turkish by Çuhadaroğlu (1985) to determine the levels of self-esteem of the participants. The study data was analyzed by SPSS 25 package software. The obtained data were represented as values of frequency (f), percentage (%), average (x-), and standard deviation (±). Pearson Correlation analysis was applied in order to determine the effect of physical activity attitudes on self-esteem. The age average of the participants was determined to be 16,28 (±0,97). The gender distribution was 312 females and 314 males, and the number of those who were participating in licensed sports was 336, and that of those who were not was 290. It was determined that there was a positive correlation between the participants’ attitude towards physical activity and their self-esteem. In conclusion, a positive correlation was found between the attitude towards physical activity and self-esteem. In the study, it was suggested that the tendencies towards physical activity should be protected.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Richman ◽  
Kathryn P. Brown ◽  
Maxine L. Clark
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Maladaptive Behavior ◽  
Maladaptive Behaviors ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Relationship

General and area specific self-esteem scores of high school students were found to be inversely related to indices of maladaptive behavior. The specific maladaptive behaviors that were associated with self-esteem varied as a function of gender and social class. Implications for the possible causal relationship between self-esteem and maladaptive behaviors as they relate to gender and social class are discussed.

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