Relationship Between Parental Marital Status and Levels of Self-Esteem Among Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in Kenya: A Case of University of Kabianga

Kenyan universities have experienced a growing phenomenon of student’s unrest, drug abuse, deaths, relationship break ups, exam malpractice among others, which pose serious challenges in the growth and development students. Feelings self-worth develop very early childhood, thus parents guardians play great role determining what child thinks about him or herself. Self-esteem children from either single married parent families is important as it has direct impact on child’s behavior school. This study investigated influence parental marital status students’ self-esteem universities. Causal-comparative research design guided study. The target population included 840 fourth year students University Kabianga. Proportionate stratified sampling simple random was utilized to identify sample size 271 male female Data collected by use questionnaire. established statistically significant difference (t2.386= 115.788, p < 0.05) between level undergraduate Students recorded higher family. concludes that positive also recommends strategies improve levels self-esteem. should seek train for based counseling even when they are not encountering problems. student counselors SE special programs activities psychological psychosocial issues Keywords: Self-Esteem, Parental Marital Status DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-33-12 Publication date: November 30 th 2022