Abstract
The evaluation of oneself is known as self esteem (James 1890). A healthy self esteem is necessary for mental well being and positive self concept. Low self esteem is cause to prejudice and assumed that people lack with self esteem would be most prejudiced against others (Stephan and Rrosenfeild 1978). The present study is aimed to assess the self esteem (explicit and implicit) among students of different social categories. Total 300 participants (100 general, 100 OBC and 100 SC / SC) selected from UG/PG enrolled students of DDU Gorakhpur University and affiliated colleges. Findings of the study reveal that explicit self esteem was high in general category members and implicit self esteem was found higher in other backward category but marginal difference from general category and SC/ST category.
Highlights
The evaluation of oneself is known as self esteem (James 1890)
The main focus of this inventory was that, self esteem is significantly associated with personal satisfaction and affective functioning
Table-1 shows the impact of social category on explicit self esteem, The main effect of social category was found significant [F (1,297) =9.06, p
Summary
The evaluation of oneself is known as self esteem (James 1890). A healthy self esteem is necessary for mental well being and positive self concept. Assessment of Explicit and Implicit Self Esteem among Students of Different Social Categories to inflate their self-evaluations (Paulhus, 1991, 2002). Researchers differ in how they characterize this association, some consensus has emerged regarding its natured properties This consensus and the research it has generated provide the basis for our assessment of the construct validity of measures of implicit self-esteem. Implicit self esteem defined as “the introspectively unidentified or inaccurately identified” effect of self attitude on evaluation of self associated and self disassociated objects (Greenwald and Banaji 1995) It is recognized as automatic or unconscious process which plays a major role in almost all social psychological process (Bargh, 1984, Bargh and Chartrand 1999, Devine 1989, Bargh 2001, Fazio 1990). Self esteem used to be seen as the result of conscious self evaluation process, but much recent work has emphasized the role of unconscious or implicit self evaluation process
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