Jaroonrat Rodniam. The relationships among life events, social support, and self-esteem of adolescents in a Charity Boarding School. Master's Degree(Community Health Nursing). Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center. : Mahidol University, 2000.
The relationships among life events, social support, and self-esteem of adolescents in a Charity Boarding School
Abstract:
The purposes of this survey study are to explore negative and positive life events, level of social support and self-esteem, the difference between self-esteem scores of males and females, the relationships among age, feelings toward negative and positive life events, social support and self-esteem in adolescents. The influence of these variables on self-esteem was also explored. The sample for this study comprised 445 school children of grades 7th -12th in the 19th Rachaprachanukroa (under Royal patronage) School, Thungsong District, Nakhon Sri Thammarat province. The data were collected between February 2 and March 10, 2000 using the Adolescent Self-Assessment and Report Questionnaire (ASARQ). Statistics used for data analysis were percentages, means, standard deviation, independent t-test, Pearsons Product Moment Correlation and Stepwise multiple regression. The results showed that the largest portion of the studied samples reported death of influential relative (43.60%) and having a warm family (22.22%) as a negative and a positive life event, respectively. Most of them had moderate to high self-esteem (52.1%) and had moderate social support (66.1%). There was no significant difference between males and females self-esteem scores. The findings revealed a positive correlation between feelings toward positive life events and social support to self-esteem with the correlation coefficient (r) =.122 (p< .05) and .486 (p< .01), respectively. Age and feelings toward positive life events were significantly associated with social support, the correlation coefficient (r) = .216 (p< .01) and .196 (p< .01), respectively. Social support was the only one factor among all studied variables found to be influential adolescents self-esteem scores (R2 = .237, p< .001). Overall results from this study provide more understanding of life events in adolescents and the importance of social support to enhancing self-esteem thus leading to the development of appropriate measures in schools to foster self-esteem in adolescents particularly with reference to school nursing services
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