Effectiveness of a Tailored Psychosocial Intervention on Self Esteem of Adolescents Studying in Selected High Schools of Bagalkot

Abstract

Background: Adolescence is a stage of development in which there are multiple changes in physical, cognitive, psychological and socio-cultural levels. Hence thorough understanding of adolescence in society is helps to increasing their self esteem. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of a Tailored Psychosocial Intervention on self esteem of adolescents studying in selected High schools of Bagalkot. Methodology: This was a randomized controlled trail with pre-test post-test control group design. A Simple Random sample of 60 adolescents was selected from at Govt high school Navanagar, Bagalkot and Sajjalashree high School, Navanagar, Bagalkot. Socio demographic information of adolescents was gathered using structured socio demographic profile and self esteem was assessed using Rosenberg’s self esteem inventory scale. Data were analyzed in terms of objectives of the study. Findings: Result indicates that majority of the adolescents of both experimental group (60%) and control group (53.33%) had high self-esteem. A statistically significant difference was found between post test self esteem scores of experimental group and control group subjects [t=5.84, p<0.01]. There was a significant association found between self esteem scores of adolescents with their family monthly income (x2 = 16.44, P < 0.01). Conclusion: The finding of the study concluded that the adolescents had high self esteem. The implementation of Tailored Psychosocial Intervention programme to the experimental group improved self esteem to a greater degree as compared to control group. Keywords: Adolescence, Self esteem, Effectiveness, Tailored Psychosocial Intervention and Socio-demographic variables.