Adolescents and Self-Esteem.

Adolescents are born into society and do not get to chose their parents and the families they will grow up in. If the family's core is healthy, vital and if it meets the needs and special demands of its members, then they will have better chances of developing positive self-esteem. In this study we were interested in how important family is to adolescents and how adolescents enrolled in different secondary school programmes (4-year and 3-year courses) see themselves, how high their self-esteem is and what differences there are in their self-esteem in regard to their gender, secondary school programme (4-year secondary school, programme: grammar school and school of economics and 3-year secondary school, programme: hairdresser and car mechanic) and academic record. The study showed that their self-esteem level is high, that family is the most important value for adolescents, that it is more important to girls than boys and that parental love is the most significant factor within family. Furthermore, we found that adolescent self-esteem is moderately high and has a positive mark regardless of their gender and academic record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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