Self-esteem and its relationship with Disruptive behavior among Adolescences

Document Type : Original research article

Authors

1 Master's Researcher - Specialization in Educational Psychology - Faculty of women - Ain Shams University

2 Professor of Mental Health - Faculty of women - Ain Shams University

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the self-esteem and its relationship to disruptive behavior among teenagers, and differences between degrees of the study (male- female) on the scale of disruptive and self - esteem. The descriptive analytical method was used in this research. A sample consisted of (200) male and female students, was chosen by the stratified random method), aged between (13-18) years in average (15.5) and its correlation (1.21) they completed the self-esteem scale (by Pruce, R Hare,1985) translated by Magdy Mohammed Eldosoky (2016) and the disruptive scale (by the researcher). Data were analyzed using various statistical methods. The main results of this research were that there was a significant statistical relationship between all the dimensions of the self- esteem and the dimensions of aggressive behavior. No statistical significant differences in the self-esteem between males and females were found.There are statistical significant difference in the disruptive between males and females towards males.

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