Factors Related To Self – Esteem among a Sample of Children in Late Childhood Stage

The present study aimed to investigate Factors Related To Self– Esteem Between A Sample Of Children In Late Childhood Stage,  the sample Included 200 children in late childhood stage. Data were collected through personal interview questionnaire with children.
The most important results could be summarized as follows:
For personal and household characteristics:
1-    The age of 58.5% of  fathers ranged between 40-> 50 years, and the age of 56. 5% of the mothers ranged in age from 30 -> 40 years.
2-    26% of fathers and 22%   of mothers   had High level education.
3-    53.5% of fathers were working acts literal and 78% of mothers were house  wives.
4- 65% of children were ranged number of family members between 4-5.
- the results revealed that, 73% of the children exposed to physical abuse ranged to severe, medium and weak (1.37%, 10.96%, 87.67%), respectively.
 
 
- the results revealed that  all of children’s sample were exposed to verbal and emotional abuse ranged between severe, medium, and weak levels (1%, 40%, 59%).
- the results showed that 50.26% and 52% of children have received moderate levels in the overall trends in parental upbringing.
- for the level of self-esteem the results  shown that 57.5% of children had moderate level.
- The results of the correlation coefficients of  some variables indicated that there was a positive significant correlation (P<0.01) between child gender and self – esteem, and a negative significant correlation (P<0.05) between mother work and self – esteem. Also a positive significant correlation (P<0.05) between educational status of fathers and  self – esteem.
- Also, there was  a negative  highly  significant correlation (P< 0.01) between physical, verbal, and  totally abuse and self – esteem.
- The results revealed, that there was positive significant correlation (P<0.05) between the parenting trends father's figure and  self – esteem, and positive significant correlation (P<0.01) between the parenting trends mother's figure and  self – esteem.