scholarly journals Self-Esteem and Psychological Well-being among Working and Non-working Women

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Akram

In modern India, the role of woman can be called as phenomenon. The transition of woman from the previous to present is worth mentioning. Woman who rest considered being the masters in the art of home making but now considered to be forces that shapes a country and culture. Both working and non working women play a very significant role in house hold activities of their families. Their life is more family centered than that of man. Working women are often tossed between home and job. The present study aims to compare the Self-esteem and psychological well-being among working and non- working women. The respondent in the present study were 70, which were further divided in 35 working and 35 non-working women of the age range of 20-55 years. For assessment and measuring self esteem, the Rosenberg self-esteem scale (1965) and for psychological well-being, a scale measured and developed by Bhogle and Prakash (1995) were used. For the statistical analysis t- test is applied to check the significance of self esteem and psychological well-being among working and non working women. The result shows, there is a significant difference among working and non working women in self esteem and psychological well-being.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarvdeep Kohli ◽  
Anjali Malik ◽  
Varsha Rani

An essential component of youths’ successful development is learning to appropriately respond to emotions, including the ability to recognize, identify and describe one’s feelings. Emotional competence refers to one’s ability to express or release one’s inner feelings or emotions. Self-esteem reflects a person’s overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self. General well being refers to the harmonious functioning of the physical as well as psychological aspects of the personality, giving satisfaction to the self and benefit to the society. The present study focuses on the self esteem and general well being in adolescents with low vs high emotional competence. For this purpose, first of all emotional competence scale was administered on 260 adolescents within the age range of 15-18 years, to identify the low emotionally competent and high emotionally competent adolescents. After the sample selection of 152 subjects (76 low emotionally competent and 76 high emotionally competent) Rosenberg’s Self-esteem scale and General well being scale were administered. Results indicate that high emotionally competent adolescents have high self-esteem and better general well being than low emotionally competent adolescents.


2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Güler Boyraz ◽  
Thomas V. Sayger

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of family cohesion, adaptability, and paternal self-efficacy in psychological well-being of fathers of children with and without disabilities and whether the effects of these variables on psychological well-being were the same for both groups of fathers. In addition, the potential differences in perceived well-being between the two groups of fathers were examined. Sixty-three fathers of children with disabilities and 217 fathers of typically developing children participated in this study. Fathers of children with disabilities scored significantly higher on the self-acceptance dimension of psychological well-being compared with fathers of children without disabilities. After controlling for the demographic factors, family cohesion and paternal self-efficacy significantly and positively predicted well-being of fathers; the effects of these variables on well-being were the same for both groups of fathers.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
E.S. Polishchuk

of psychological well-being features in students with different levels of role victimization. Role victimization shall be understood to mean such a strategy of victim relations, which is based on the individual predisposition to produce a particular playing or social type of victim behavior (playing and social role of the victim) (M.A. Odintsova). The article presents the analysis of psychological well-being of students with different levels of role victimization (N = 82, average age 21 years). "Auto-viktim» (N = 28), "victim» (N = 31), "non-viktim» (N = 23) groups were formed according to the level and nature of manifestations of the role victimization, and a comparative analysis of the level of psychological well-being and perception of the image of the world in these groups was made. The study shows that while level of role victimization increases, psychological well-being of students reduces and negative attitude toward the world forms. "Auto-viktim" students while facing difficulties play the role of victim, and "victim" students use social role. "Non-viktim" students have positive self-esteem, they are optimistic, easy to set goals and reach them. Also the article present an analysis of the peculiarities of the psychological well-being, the perception of image of the world, the level of role victimization in groups of male and female youth.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosef Dedy Pradipto ◽  
Bernadette N. Setiadi

The aim of this study was to examine the role or internalized stigma and the perception of discrimination in relation to the self esteem of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Jakarta, Indonesia. It would appear that negative stigmatization and discrimination towards PLWA in Indonesia have risen rapidly, in line with the increase in the number of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. The instruments employed were the Rosenberg Internalized Stigma, Perception of Discrimination, and Self Esteem scales. The participants in this study were PLWHA (N = 96), living in Jakarta, with an age range of 15 to 59 years. The results of regression analysis indicated that internalized stigma (t = 1.31; p > .05) and the perception of discrimination (t = - 0.50; p > .05) played no role in predicting self esteem amongst PLWHA. A difference is found regarding internalized stigma and perceived discrimination, seen from the viewpoint of the work status of the participants.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 981-1008
Author(s):  
Yael Itzhaki

This study examined the contribution of mentor support to the following aspects of high-school dropouts’ lives: the personal (self-esteem, and the process of becoming less religious [BLR]), social (societal conditional positive and negative regard) and psychological (well-being and loneliness). The study, conducted among Ultraorthodox Jewish males, included 261 participants, aged 14 years to 21 years ( M = 17, SD = 1.17), who were at different stages in the dropout process. Findings indicated a significant difference in the contribution of mentor support. Among youths still in their yeshiva high schools, mentor support made only a minor contribution to the process of BLR; for youths in a program for dropouts, mentor support made a positive contribution to most aspects of their lives. However, among dropouts, mentor support contributed negatively to all aspects that were examined in the current study. Findings highlight the importance of further illuminating the role of mentor support and adapting it to youths’ needs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunjan Sharma ◽  
Dr. Neelam Pandey

This study primarily aims at assessing and studying the parenting styles and its effect on the self-esteem of adolescents, specifically in Indian context. ‘Parenting styles’ are of four main types which are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and neglectful parenting style. Three main styles out of these namely authoritarian, authoritative and permissive style of parenting have been kept as the focus of this study to assess their effect on the self-esteem of adolescents since both theoretically and practically it has always been documented and proved that the neglectful approach of parents always negatively impact the children and adolescents’ factors related to their ‘self’, therefore it is not kept in the inclusion criteria for this study. The selected sample for this study consisted of a total of 120 participants (60 female and 60 male) adolescents selected from Delhi and NCR in India, the age range kept as 16-18years (with no mental and physical disability, regular school going adolescents, with nearly same socio-economic background and only those from unbroken nuclear families with mothers who were homemakers). The findings showed that there is no significant difference between permissive and authoritative parenting both in case of mothers’ and fathers’ parenting on the self-esteem of adolescents and both these styles of parenting mostly results in higher self-esteem among adolescents as compared to authoritarian style of parenting which is found to have a significant negative correlation with the self-esteem of adolescents. Also, not much difference is found between the self-esteem levels of male and female adolescents in present times in urban Indian context.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Rosane Camila De Godoi ◽  
Hélio Mamoru Yoshida ◽  
Paula Teixeira Fernandes

INTRODUÇÃO: Tendo em vista a atual ascensão dos esportes de aventura e dos diversos parâmetros psicológicos relacionados à essas práticas, faz-se necessário estudar como esses esportes, e seu risco inerente, são capazes de despertar distintas sensações e de que maneira isso pode influenciar a autoestima de seus praticantes. OBJETIVO: Esse estudo teve o objetivo de avaliar os índices de autoestima em praticantes de rafting, kayak, montanhismo e paraquedismo, avaliando os índices e analisando as correlações entre os grupos. METODOS: Para isso, foram analisados os perfis de 73 praticantes de esportes de aventura (rafting, kayak, montanhismo e paraquedismo), utilizando-se como instrumento a Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg, na versão adaptada por Hutz. O teste estatístico adotado foi o Kruskal-Wallis, a normalidade dos dados foi testada através do teste de Shapiro Wilk e todas as análises foram realizadas no programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. RESULTADOS: Foi possível constatar elevados índices de autoestima em todos os participantes avaliados, em especial nos paraquedistas, sugerindo que os esportes de aventura são capazes de influenciar no bem-estar psicológico e a saúde mental de seus praticantes. CONCLUSÃO: Com os dados obtidos, concluímos que este estudo traz o fortalecimento do bem-estar psicológico por meio da prática dos esportes de aventura, contribuindo para melhor autoestima e maior entendimento dos aspectos relacionados aos praticantes destas modalidades, ainda pouco estudados cientificamente.ABSTRACT. Self-esteem in practitioners of adventure sports.BACKGROUND: In view of the current rise of adventure sports and the various psychological parameters related to these practices, it is necessary to study how these sports, and their inherent risk, are capable of awakening different sensations and how this could affect the self-esteem of its practitioners. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the self-esteem indices in rafting, kayak, mountaineering and skydiving practitioners, evaluating the indexes, and analysing the correlations between the groups. METHODS: For this, the profiles of 73 practitioners of adventure sports (rafting, kayak, mountaineering and skydiving) were analyzed using as an instrument the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, in the version adapted by Hutz. The statistical test adopted was the Kruskal-Wallis, the normality of the data was tested using the Shapiro Wilk test, and all analyzes were performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program.RESULTS: It was possible to verify the high self-esteem indices in all evaluated groups, especially skydivers, suggesting that adventure sports are capable of influencing the psychological well-being and mental health of their practitioners. CONCLUSION: With these data, we can conclude that this study raises the question of psychological well-being through the practice of adventure sports, contributing to a better self-esteem and understanding of the aspects related to this portion of the population, which is still little studied.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saqib Bashir ◽  
Prof. Abu Sufiyan Zilli

The aim of this study was to compare the psychological well-being of public and private undertakings in Aligarh. The sample consisted of 100 participants including 50 each from public and private undertakings. Psychological well-being is a positive aspect that is present in every individual in varying degree& it is very important to measure psychological well-being among public & private sector due to its role of productivity in each sector. Psychological well Being is an important aspect for effective performance in each undertaking sector, as it determines the internal feelings to persuade the external actions .Low psychological well-being is obvious to effect any domain of our life may it be academic  or  work life. 42 item versions Psychological well being scale by Carol ryff was used to collect the data from different private & public undertakings in Aligarh. This scale consist of six dimensions namely Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Personal Growth, Positive Relationship, Purpose in Life, Self-Acceptance. Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test were applied for analysis of data. The findings of this study revealed that over all psychological well-being of public undertakings is higher than private undertakings. Significant difference of overall psychological well-being was found between public and private undertakings in Aligarh .Furthermore, significant difference was found on all above mentioned dimensions of psychological well-being except autonomy and self-acceptance.


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