An Analysis of Self-esteem between Destitute and Non-destitute women

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: The present study was conducted to explore the relationship of self-esteem destitute and non-destitute women (N = 60). Urdu translation of Self-Esteem Scale (Hudson, 1982), comprised of 25 items, was used to measure self-esteem. It was hypothesized that self-esteem of the destitute women will be lower than non-destitute women. Results indicated that destitute women have lower self-esteem than non-destitute women. Results regarding education indicate that in over all groups, women whose education is up to matriculation have lower self-esteem than those whose education is greater than matriculation. Another demographic which marital status, no differences have been resulted in overall sample of married and unmarried women on Self-esteem Scale. Another demographic was age on Self-Esteem Scale adolescents have low-esteem than the adults in overall sample