Significance of Self-Awareness Activities in Development of Positive Self-Esteem Among Secondary School Students

"Enhance your self-concept and Build Your Self-esteem." quoted by Clayton Tucker-Ladd (1996) (cited in James Neill, 2005). In the present investigation effort has been made to validate above statement with an objective to develop and conduct self-awareness program in order to enhance self-esteem among secondary students. As per objective, self-awareness program was designed including various guidance and counselling activities such as class talk, self-awareness activities, which are speculated to enhance self-awareness of secondary students and its effectiveness on their self-esteem, was ascertained under pre-post design. This study adopted a purposive sampling approach in order to recruit participants who could be theoretically expected to differ in the extent of their self-esteem. These participants were recruited from educational institution namely Center Public r. Secondary school, Udaipur (Raj). The whole sample comprised of 40 secondary students from class 9th. These participants were gone through three phases namely pre-test, implementation of self-awareness program and post-test phases. Participants' self-esteem was measured on state self-esteem scale as baseline criteria in before and after implementing self-awareness program on them. To ascertain the significance of self-awareness program score obtained on state self-esteem scale in both pre and post condition was compared under paired t-test analysis using SPSS (version 22). On the basis of obtained result self-awareness activities under guidance and counselling program is established as an effective measure to enhance secondary students' self-esteem.