Examining the Role of Home Environment on Self Esteem

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to examine the role of home environment in developing adolescents’ self esteem. The data were collected by mutiphasic sampling method. In the first phase 600 adolescents (300 boys and 300 girls) in the age range of 14-18 years belonging to nuclear families were selected and administered the self developed home environment scale. After that the respondents were categorized into two groups i.e. the participants with favourable and unfavourable home environments on the basis of their mean and standard deviation on the said scale and they were the final research subjects for the study. In the last phase the final sample of 281 subjects (152 favourable home environment and 129 unfavourable home environment) were administered Self Esteem Inventory developed by Prasad and Thakur. Data were analyzed using Z test, chi square and coefficient of correlation. The results revealed that there is a significant role of home environment in developing an adolescent’s self esteem.