A STUDY OF SELF ESTEEM OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

The purpose of the paper is to determine the self esteem of elementary school teachers in Vellore district of Tamilnadu. The sample comprised 160 elementary school teachers out of these 90 male and 70 female. Self Esteem Inventory by M.S.Prasad and G.P. Thakur Psychology Department, University of Bihar, Muzaffarpur. The investigator used the statistical techniques, Mean, SD and “t” test The results reveal that respect to the gender, locality of school, age and type of family have average level of self esteem towards elementary school teachers and further it shows that there is no significant difference between the gender, locality of school, age and type of family towards self esteem of elementary school teachers