Effect of Depression of Educated Parents on the Self-Esteem of College Students
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https://doi.org/10.55737/trt/v-vi.368Keywords:
Depression, Educated Parents, Self-esteemAbstract
The major aim of this study was to find out the effect of depression of educated parents on the self-esteem of college-level students. The researcher made the following objectives of the study: to examine depression among educated parents as perceived by students, to assess the level of self-esteem among students as perceived by students themselves, and to find out the effect of parental depression on the self-esteem of students. The descriptive type of research design was used to analyze the effect of depression of educated parents on self-esteem. All students studying in grade 14 in government boys’ colleges and government women’s colleges of Rawalpindi, whose parents had a minimum qualification of intermediate and above, were the population of the study. The study was delimited to students studying in grade 14. The researcher selected students whose parents had three categories of education: category 1: 12 years, category 2: 14 years, and category 3: 16 years and above. Then, 30 students (10 students of each category from each college) were selected per college. A total of 180 sample students were selected by purposive sampling technique; among them, 90 were male and 90 were female students. As the research was correlation type in nature, two questionnaires were used to collect data. The Chi-square Association test was applied to examine the effect of different levels of education and depression levels of parents on students’ self-esteem. The researcher concluded that parental depression had a great effect on the self-esteem of students, and there was a great association between the variables.
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