Measures Self-Esteem among Undergraduate Nursing Students

Abstract

A large body of research has highlighted self-esteem and self-concept for their importance and relatedness to various aspects of students’ academic and personal life. Self-esteem is significantly associated with the positive psychological outcomes of both individual and society, including, but not limited to psychological adjustment, positive emotion, and academic performance. A descriptive-correlational study was done through the period of November 10th, 2017 to February, 11th, 2019. The study also aims to assessing levels of self-esteem in the study sample, and to determine the relationship between self-esteem and the following variables: age, gender, academic year, residency place, father job, mother job, family’s monthly income, and interest of attending the nursing college. A non-probability, convenience, sampling of (600) undergraduate nursing students were selected from four nursing colleges located in Middle Ephorates region. A two parts questionnaire was used to fulfil the study objectives. The first part includes student’s sociodemographic information. The second part is the Rosenberg self-esteem scale to measure levels of self-esteem. The finding indicates that in majority of nursing students had a self-esteem levels range between average (52.2%) to high level (44.8%).