www.tjprc.org editor@tjprc.org A STUDY ON THE SELF-ESTEEM LEVEL AMONG THE STUDENTS OF COLLEGE OF HOME SCIENCE T. ARUNA BHARATHI Teaching Associate, Department of HDFS, C.H. Sc, PJTSAU, Hyderabad, India ABSTRACT A study was conducted to analyze the self-esteem of the students of College of Home Science, PJTSAU, Hyderabad, Telangana state, India. For studying the self-esteem level of the students, Rosenberg Self- esteem scale (1965) was used. Findings of this study had revealed that, the 55% (higher percentage) of the students had medium self- esteem, whereas the remaining 45 percentage of students were with high self-esteem. We strongly believe that, this study will help the parents and teachers, to maintain the self-esteem in optimum level among the college students. KEYWORDS: Self-Esteem, Adolescent, Home Science, Education & College Received: Aug 20, 2017; Accepted: Sep 11, 2017; Published: Oct 09, 2017; Paper Id.: IJESROCT201711 INTRODUCTION Education is a very important tool for expanding student’s mind. It will help in exposing every student to lot of opportunities, topics, people and experiences. Due to education, students grow and develop in many areas including analytical awareness, decision-making, creative expression, reasoning, verbal expression and many more. Students get matured and develop, into responsible and independent adults, during their college days. The sense of identity, self-concept and self-esteem is developed by the students, during their college days typically. It is the time when the students themselves figure out what the life is all about. They try to make lot of friends and be “accepted” by peers. Adolescence is one of the most fascinating periods of development in the life span of human, which links childhood with adulthood. The thoughts of an adolescent would always be idealistic and abstract. There is a long worrying history, about the adolescents’ growth and the way how they will ‘turn out’. ‘Storm –and-stress’ view was proposed by G. Stanley Hall in 1904, in which he proposed that the adolescence is a turbulent time period, in which the adolescents experience conflict and mood swings. Nevertheless, the studies of Daniel Offer and his colleagues (1988), on adolescents’ self-images in the United States, Bangladesh, Australia, Israel, Hungary, Japan, Turkey, Taiwan, Italy and West Germany revealed that, at least 73 percent of the students showed healthy self-image. In recent days, self-esteem is one of the significant research topics in psychology. Research of Naderi, Abdullah, Aizan, Sharir& Kumar (2009) has documented the significant role of high self-esteem, in achieving academic results and in developing social, and personal responsibility. Studies have been conducted by the researches, on self-esteem in relation with many other variables like drug abuse, violence, relationships, bullying and academic achievement (Jonsson, 2006). What is the reason behind the self-esteem study on college students? The reality is the life is not always a bed of roses. This is the reality of universe and this should be Original Article International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) ISSN (P): 2249-6947; ISSN (E): 2249-8052 Vol. 7, Issue 5, Oct 2017, 71-76 © TJPRC Pvt Ltd.