Vol. 3, Issue 7, Part G (2017)

Abstract
Confidence is the growth hormone for an individual’s personality development. Without confidence, a person’s growth in his life; personal, professional and social remains stunted. Self-confidence is considered one of the most influential motivators and regulators of behavior in people's everyday lives. Self confidence is a positive attitude of oneself towards one’s self-concept. So the main concern of this paper was to study the self confidence among university students in relation to their gender, locality and stream. The investigator tried to see difference in self confidence of university students in relation to their gender, locality and stream and interactional effect in self confidence among students in relation to their gender and locality. For the present study standardized tool of self confidence by M. Basavana was used. The data were collected from University of Jammu by using simple random sampling technique. The statistical techniques used for data analysis was one-way and two-way ANOVA. The findings of the study revealed that there was significant difference in self confidence of university students in relation to their streams.