Vol. 3, Issue 3, Part L (2017)

Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to determine the self-esteem of secondary school students in Vellore district of Tamilnadu. The sample comprised 300 secondary school students out of these 152 male and 128 female. Self Esteem Inventory by M.S. Prasad and G.P. Thakur Psychology Department, University of Bihar, Muzaffarpur. The investigator used the statistical techniques, Mean, SD, “t” and F test. The results reveal that there is no significant difference between the gender, location of school, mode of school, religion, parental qualification, parental occupation, no of siblings and type of family towards self-esteem of secondary school students.