Impact of Socio-Demographic Factors on Self-Esteem among College Students of Jammu Province.

Self-esteem is the inner belief about self. It is the overall opinion and value of a person. Developing good self-esteem involves self-respect, self-acceptance and an appreciation of self-worth that help individual to fight challenges under any adverse situation. State of Jammu and Kashmir, situated in extreme northern part of India amidst nature's bountiful beauty is threatened by prevailing cross-border sponsored terrorism and complex political scenario that create psychological challenge to civilian and as well as the youth population. Youth suffer more as there is constant perception of scarcity of job and low self-entrepreneurship opportunity. The educated youth have lot of doubt regarding their future and how to face the competitive world outside. Thus, the aim of the study is to analyse the level of self-esteem among the college students studying in Jammu province. The study used descriptive research design and purposive sampling method on 100 boys and 100 girls student from various degree college of Jammu province (Jammu and Kashmir state). Semi structured socio-demographic scale was constructed to assess socio-demographic parameters. The students’ level of self-esteem was assessed by using a 10-item scale developed by Rosenberg (1965). The statistical analysis was done on the data using SPSS 16.0. The level of significance was fixed at 0.005 (p<0.05). Significant low self-esteem is revealed among students under various socio-demographic parameters.