Volume 10, Issue 2, October 2014, Pages 387–394
Saima Ali1 and Dr. Anila Amber Malik2
1 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
2 Department of Psychology, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A number of studies evidenced the psychological problems being faced by university students. However, little work has done in Pakistan with respect to psychological problems faced by university students and its impact on their self-esteem. On the basis of literature review it was hypothesized that 1) There would be a significant inverse relationship between symptoms of psychopathology and self-esteem. 2) There will be a difference between symptoms of psychopathology among men and women university students. Sample of 400 participants had been taken from major representative departments of Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences, Management and administrative sciences of University of Karachi, while using Systematic Random Sampling. Consent form was got signed from every participant. Interview sheet and General Health Questionnaire: GHQ-28 and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was administered on each participant. Result analysis revealed that a correlation between symptoms of psychopathology and self-esteem is negatively associated and significant at 0.01alpha level. However, no gender difference found in the symptoms of psychopathology.
Author Keywords: Psychological problems, Self-Esteem, Gender difference, Systematic random sampling, inverse relationship.
Saima Ali1 and Dr. Anila Amber Malik2
1 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
2 Department of Psychology, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A number of studies evidenced the psychological problems being faced by university students. However, little work has done in Pakistan with respect to psychological problems faced by university students and its impact on their self-esteem. On the basis of literature review it was hypothesized that 1) There would be a significant inverse relationship between symptoms of psychopathology and self-esteem. 2) There will be a difference between symptoms of psychopathology among men and women university students. Sample of 400 participants had been taken from major representative departments of Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences, Management and administrative sciences of University of Karachi, while using Systematic Random Sampling. Consent form was got signed from every participant. Interview sheet and General Health Questionnaire: GHQ-28 and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was administered on each participant. Result analysis revealed that a correlation between symptoms of psychopathology and self-esteem is negatively associated and significant at 0.01alpha level. However, no gender difference found in the symptoms of psychopathology.
Author Keywords: Psychological problems, Self-Esteem, Gender difference, Systematic random sampling, inverse relationship.
How to Cite this Article
Saima Ali and Dr. Anila Amber Malik, “Psychopathology and Self Esteem among Students of University of Karachi,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 387–394, October 2014.
