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A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-

CONCEPT AND SELF- CONFIDENCE LEVEL OF
ADOLESCENT STUDENTS
Jyotsnawali Misra
Research Scholar of Dibrugarh University, Department of Education, Assam
Email id- jiuuu568@gmail.com

ABSTRACT :Self-concept and self-confidence are two most important aspect of our behaviour and personality.
One’s self-concept is the collection of beliefs about one’s own self and self-confidence means having faith in
our own abilities to accomplish a work. This paper made an attempt to study the self-concept and self-
confidence level of late adolescent students. For this purpose 50 adolescent students studying in class x selected
randomly from Sonitpur District of Assam. The study found that most of the students have high self- concept
level. The self-confidence are found as above average level. The study also found a significant correlation
between self-concept and self-confidence level of late adolescent students. The coefficient of correlation
between these two variable is .67.

KEYWORDS :SELF-CONCEPT, SELF-CONFIDENCE, ADOLESCENT, STUDENTS.

Article Received: 10 August 2020, Revised: 25 October 2020, Accepted: 18 November 2020

INTRODUCTION :Adolescent is the period of

rapid growth and development. In this period
SELF- CONFIDENCE :Self- confidence means
individual undergoes revolutionary changes in all
having faith in our own abilities or skills to
aspects including physical, mental, social,
accomplish a work. It means accepting and trusting
intellectual etc. Adolescent is the period of
our own self. It helps an individual to maintain a
heighten sensitivity for rapid learning and critical
positive and realistic views about themselves. Self
acquisitions which determine the general style of
confident people can communicate assertively and
adult life. It is very important to study the
can handle criticism. Our perception about our self
adolescent period because it can provide the
always influences our self- confidence level.
knowledge of needs and nature of their
development. By understanding their needs the This paper attempts to study
teacher, administrator can frame appropriate the relationship between self-concept and self-
curriculum, school policies and methodology of confidence level of adolescent students.
teaching them.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY :
This paper studies the self-concept
and self-confidence level of adolescent students. 1. To study the self-concept level of
adolescent students.
Because both concepts are very important aspect of
2. To study the self-confidence level of
one’s personality and general life.
adolescent students.
SELF-CONCEPT :One’s self-concept is the 3. To study the relationship between self-
collection of beliefs about oneself. Self-concept is a concept and self-confidence level of
cognitive or descriptive component of one’s self. adolescent students.
Self- concept includes every aspect related to our
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE :Many
self. Our physical attributes, personality traits,
studies have prove the importance of self-concept
mental characteristics all are included in self-
and self-confidence in one’s life. Bharathi and
concept. Psychologist Carl Rogers and Abraham
Maslow influenced in popularizing the concept. Sreedevi (2015) made an investigation on
Self- concept in not innate but it is developed by adolescent students on their self-concept level.
Study assessed the students self-concept level on
the individual through interaction with the
the ground of temperamental, intellectual, physical
environment. Self- concept is defined as the value
and social and the study found that most of the
that an individual places on his or her own
students have higher level of self-concept. March
characteristics, qualities and actions ( Woolfolk,
2011). and Craven (1997) describe self-concept as vital in
one’s life which impacts on variety of aspects of

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life including academic achievement. In 1955 control, inter personal relationship and parental
another study was carried out by Jourard which support.
indicated that self-concept is affected by our
Reliability : Reliability of the scale was .48.
physical attribute too. An individual with a positive
attitude about physicality, and self-confidence Validity : Validity of the scale was ranges from
generally have high self-concept. Herrera, .264 to .439.
Mohamed and 2 others in 2020 studied about self-
Statistical Techniques used :The researcher
concept its relationship with emotional intelligence
, academic achievement and emotional intelligence computed the Mean of the obtained data. To find
which points out a significant correlation between out correlation between self-concept and self-
confidence Pearson’s coefficient of correlation
these concepts. Rath, Sangeeta, Nanda and Sumitra
Method is used.
(2012) found that academically competent student
have higher level self-concept.
Greenacre, Tung and Chapman (2014) studied the DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY :
influence of low social self-confidence on
interpersonal relationship. The study was 1. The study is limited only to the study of
conducted in United States found that high self- self-concept and self-confidence level of
confidence have greater impact on interpersonal adolescent students.
relationship. Berndt (2002) stated self -confident 2. The study is restricted only to the
people are more capable of dealing with challenges, relationship between self-concept and self-
difficult situation and social setting. Malik (2104) confidence level of adolescent students.
conducted a study on the effect of self- confidence 3. The study included adolescent students
on academic achievement among senior secondary who are studying in class x only.
school students. It was found from the study that 4. The study is limited only to Sonitpur
self-confidence have significant impact on District of Assam.
academic achievement of the students and girls and
boys do not differ in their self- confidence level.
RESULT :The first objective of this research is to
METHODOLOGY :For this study Descriptive find out the self-concept level of adolescent
survey method is used. Because it studies the students. From the study it was found that out of 50
present condition of the phenomena. students 37 student have high ( Grade B) self-
Sample and Sampling Technique :Simple concept level. Adolescent girls have better self-
random sampling is used to draw the sample from concept in the areas like behaviour, intellectual
the population . 50 adolescent students studying in and school status. It was also found from the study
class x of Sonitpur District were selected for the that most of the students are concerned with their
study. physical appearance and attribute. There is no
significant difference between boys and girls
Toolsused : regarding their self-concept level.
Self- Concept Scale :Children’s self- concept scale The second objective of the study is to find out the
was constructed and developed by Dr. S. P. self-confidence level of adolescent students. The
Ahluwalia. This scales cover 12 to 18 years boys criteria of self-confidence level ranges from
and girls. It has 80 items and measures 6 areas- extremely high, high, above average, average,
behaviour, intellectual and school status, physical below average, low and extremely low according to
appearance and attribute, anxiety, popularity and the booklet. Out of 50 students 34 students have
happiness. above average level of self-confidence level and 16
Reliability : The reliability coefficient of the scale students have average level of self-confidence
level. Girls are more confident in interpersonal
is .88 which indicates it is quite reliable.
relationship than boys. Otherwise there is no
Validity : Validity was measured by two experts significant difference between boys and girls
Dr. Ellen V. Piers and Dr. S. P. Ahluwalia. It has regarding their self-confidence level.
higher order of face and content validity.
The third objective of the study is to find out the
Self- Confidence Scale : This scale was developed relationship between self-confidence and self-
by Madhu Gupta and Bindiya Lakhani (2018). This concept level of adolescent students. From the
scale be administered on secondary and senior obtained data the correlation between self-concept
secondary students. It contains 48 items under five and self-confidence as .64 which indicates
dimensions- decisiveness, self-concept, self- moderate level relation between these two variable.

RESULT IS SHOWN IN THE TABLE :

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Mean of Self-Concept 117.5

Mean of Self- Confidence 121.8
Coefficient of Correlation .64
Total No Students 50

Analysis By Gender And Cultural Group.

CONCLUSION : The study found a moderate
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