Vol. 2, Issue 12, Part B (2016)

Abstract
Disability is one of the hardest effects in the whole planet, because they seriously don’t understand why each person else is “normal” in which they aren’t. Self-esteem may be defined simply as favorable and unfavorable attitude towards self. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between the period of disability and the self-esteem of an adolescent having disability. This study was conducted on 120 disabled adolescent. The respondent age group was 12-18 years. Data was collected using along with interview schedule, standardized scale, from the locale area of Lucknow city. The result showed that there was a significant relationship between self-esteem and the period of disability, and showed that period of disability affect the self-esteem of respondent. It may be increase or decrease also. This study was to demonstrate the relationship between period of disability and self-esteem of an adolescent with disability.