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Study the Effect of Family Performance Aspects on Female Students' Self-Esteem of High Schools of Isfahan City in Academic Year 2013-2014

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Zohreh Haghani, Yaghoub Masoumi, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Mahmud Sadeghi, Hosein Sadeghi

Pages 71-77 Received: 18 May, 2014 Revised: 20 Jun, 2014 Published Online: 23 Jul, 2014

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARP/v1-i1/7389
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of family performance aspects on female student's self-esteem of high schools of Isfahan city in the academic year2013-2014. The statistical population of the study was the female students of high schools of Isfahan city in the academic year 2013-2014. Of them, a sample of 100 students was selected with stratified random sampling method. The statistical method used includes: analysis of Pierson's correlation coefficient and step-by-step regression analysis. Cooper Smith's self-esteem questionnaire and the tools of family performance measurement were used to measure the study variables. The study findings showed that there is a significant relationship between self-esteem and family performance aspects, which is 0.78 in the sub-scale of emotional accountability (family performance). The current study result showed that the higher family performance is associated with the positive results for students' self-esteem.
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In-Text Citation: (Haghani et al., 2014)
To Cite this Article: Haghani, Z., Masoumi, Y., Mohammadi, E., Sadeghi, M., & Sadeghi, H. (2014). Study the Effect of Family Performance Aspects on Female Students’ Self-Esteem of High Schools of Isfahan City in Academic Year 2013-2014. International Journal of Academic Research in Psychology, 1(1), 71–77.