Academic Self-Esteem of High School Students

High School Students by virtue of their having reached a crucial stage in their developmental life span and academics are vulnerable to disruptions in the normative development of their self-esteem specially academic self -esteem that has great impact on their academic pursuits. Since in our industrialized societies educational achievement is a necessary precursor to future career placements, it becomes imperative to acknowledge the role of latent factors of personality traits, intellectual capacities and affective orientations of the students in contributing to differential academic achievements. Educational achievement and academic self esteem seems to be highly inter-related and each one influences the other. Nonetheless the foundation for academic achievement seems to be positive academic self-esteem which has to be cultivated at an early stage of our lives. In sum while analysing the literature on academic self-esteem, an unexplored yet highly relevant issue that emerged was that the personality traits, intellectual capacities and affective orientations need to be analysed of the students from the standpoint of contributing to the build up of their academic self-esteem.