A study on self esteem among various societal groups: A comparative approach

The purpose of this study was to investigate the self esteem among the various societal groups where the sample of the study consisted the subjects (female) in the age category of 17 to 23 years with mean & SD 18.81+ 3.25 from different sections of Haryana i.e. Physical educationist, Sports Professionals, Fitness group, and college going students, who were performing moderate to vigorous physical exercises as well as sports. Rosenberg's self-esteem scale (1965) was used in the study. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. After applying the statistical techniques the study reveals that sports professionals posses higher self esteem than rest of the three groups, on the other hand, the second most observed group with high self esteem was physical educationist group, which is attributed to the fact that self esteem is major life adjustment variable associated with exercise (Robert j. Sonstreom, 2006).Whereas another reason could be the many researchers found that the athlete healthy self esteem is 17% higher than the non-athletes (Ward, ToniM, 2010).