The purpose of this review of literature is to describe implications and effectiveness of promoting self-esteem enhancing programs in schools as a means of increasing academic achievement and decreasing problem behaviors. Older over-arching and generally accepted theories suggest that increasing self-esteem in students will result in an increase of academic achievement which can lower negative ...

This study tested a structural equation model to estimate the relationship between health behaviors, body mass index (BMI), and self-esteem and the academic achievement of adolescents. The authors analyzed survey data from the 2000 study of Youth in Iceland , a population-based, cross-sectional sample of 6,346 adolescents in Iceland. The model demonstrated good fit with chi-square of 2685 (n = ...

Objectives of this study were to compare Facebook users and non-users on self-esteem and academic achievement variables and to investigate the factors related to perceived positive and/or negative impact of Facebook on academic performance. A total of 277 Croatian undergraduates participated in the study, 99 (35.7%) of which were male and 178 (64.3%) female. Facebook users were younger in compa...

The authors examine the directionality of effects between global self-esteem, domain-specific academic self-concepts, and academic achievement. Special emphasis is placed on learning environments as potential moderators of the direction of these effects. According to the meritocracy principle presented here, so-called bottom-up effects (i.e., self-esteem is influenced by academic self-concept) ...

introduction: this study was conducted with aim of investigating the relationship between religious orientation and self-esteem of students. methods: the present research was of a correlational study. the research population consisted of all students (boys and girls) studying at islamic azad university, payam noor and applied science universities in darehshahr city in the academic year of 2013-...

Researchers have reported that parental authority has linked to levels of child’s self-esteem. Most previous research has shown that authoritative parenting is more beneficial to adolescent self-esteem than authoritarian parenting (Furnham & Cheng, 2000). The effects of authoritarian parenting, however, have yielded contradictory results in Asian cultures. Therefore, the current study aimed to ...