SELF ESTEEM AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS SCHOOL OF RURAL ANDURBAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to explore self esteem and attitude towards school of rural
and urban high school students. In order to achieve this end, 120 students from classes 8-10 of
rural and urban schools were selected and their age range was from 12 to 15 years. Purposive
Sampling technique was used to select the participants of the present study. Result shows that
students of urban high school has high score in self-esteem than rural high school and mean
scores of attitude towards school of rural and urban high school students are M= 96.62 and
M=104.50.This indicates that students of urban high school has high score in attitude towards
school than rural high school. An independent-samples t-test was used to assess difference
between self-esteem and attitude towards school of rural and urban high school students. There
was no significantly deference in the scores obtained for self esteem of male (M=26.20,
SD=5.31) and females (M=29.45, SD= 5.79) t (120) = -3.596, p = .778).There was no
significantly deference in the scores obtained for attitude towards school of male (M=104.18,
SD=14.50) and females (M=96.93, SD= 19.34), t (120) = -3.596, p = .778). A Pearson product- moment correlation coefficient was used to investigate the relationship between self-esteem,
attitude towards school, rural and urban high school’s students. Some of the significant finding
of the present research could not be justified by the findings of other research. Therefore it is
suggested that further research is earned on replicating the present one.