The Academicians’ Self-Esteem in the Higher Educational Institutions

Abstract

The standards of education in every country are directly related with the academic, economic and social status of the teachers those who are teaching especially in the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). The ultimate credibility of the qualified faculty members further depends upon his/her self-esteem which is based upon the self-confidence, performance and the empowerment. In classifying and calculating the analysis which circles around the role of diverse contextual and individual factors on the self-esteem of academicians/teachers in Gomal University, D. I. Khan. From the existing literature, all these variables were extracted and then converted into a research model/theoretical framework. On the theoretical framework, extracted from the relevant literature, all the experimental portion of the study was chained. The ‘field work/study’ has come about with amazing outcomes about the role of the predictors (self-confidence, performance and empowerment). The dependent variable (self-esteem) is significantly associated with the independent variables (self-confidence, performance & empowerment). The correlations are coming as self-confidence (p-value=0.000, r=0.481), performance (p-value=0.003, r=0.254) and empowerment (p-value=0.000, r=0.416).  In the regression process, only self-confidence has appeared as significant with R² of 0.27 and p-value of 0.000. Though, in the stepwise regression, self-confidence has been combined by empowerment with significance of 0.031 and 0.000.

Keywords: Self-esteem, Self-confidence, Performance, Empowerment, Academicians, HEIs