The impact of six months psychological skill training program on self-esteem of school students

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the impact of six months psychological skill training (PST) program on self-esteem of school students, in which 40 children from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, age ranged of 12-14 years were randomly selected for the study. PST program was administered for 6 months, 4 sessions a months, 1 session a week of 30-40 min and total of 24 sessions for each child. Pre data and Post training data was collected by using Self-esteem Scale (RSE) (Rosenberg, 1965) and statistically analyzed by employing paired t-test at the significance level of 0.05. The obtained result indicated that students have improved their self-esteem after undergoing the structured PST program.