Study On The College Students' Self-esteem And Its Correlations On The Social Support

Based on the exploring factor analysis and combined with the interview and questionnaire on the college students of self-esteem, the paper carried an intensive research on the structure, development characteristics. Meanwhile, the self-designed self-esteem questionnaire did a further study on the college students' self-esteem. The research indicated that (1) there was no significance existed between male and female subjects and the same applies to the students from the different disciplines. (2) There were significant differences in the different grades which revealed that the Grade one students reached the high level, the Grade Two students hit the bottom, the Grade three students witnessed a slight recovery and the Grade Four students tended to drop down a little bit in terms of self-esteem. (3) Significant differences were found in the students from the city and rural area, and from the one child family and more children family as regards on self-esteem. (4) There were differences in terms of overall self-esteem, self-confidence and self importance of the students from the different level family incomes. (5) There were differences in terms of overall self-esteem, self-confidence and academic ability of the students from highly educated father whereas differences found in terms of self-acceptance and self-confidence from highly educated mother. (6)As for the social support, there are great differences in the male and female students and students from different grades in terms of overall social support, objective and subjective support. But no differences were detected in other variables. (7) There are high correlations between the self-esteem and social support, the higher the social support is, the higher self-esteem the college students are likely to be.