Page No.33-39
Shobhna Joshi and Rekha Srivastava
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
The present study was undertaken to investigate the self-esteem and academic
achievement of urban and rural adolescents, and to examine the gender differences
in self-esteem and academic achievement. The sample of this study consisted of
400 adolescents (200 urban and 200 rural) from Varanasi District. The boys and
girls (aged 12 to14) were equally distributed among the urban and rural sample.
Self-esteem was measured by Self-esteem questionnaire and academic
achievement was measured by academic school records. The findings indicated
that there were no significant differences with regard to self-esteem of rural and
urban adolescents. There were significant differences with regard to academic
achievement of rural and urban adolescents. Urban adolescents scored higher in
academic achievement as compared to rural adolescents. Boys would score
significant higher on self-esteem as compared to girls. Significant gender differences
were found in academic achievement. Girls were significantly higher on academic
achievement as compared to boys