Student’s Socialization and Self-Esteem in Distance Education System: A Correlational Investigation

Abstract

Study was designed to explore the level of students’ socialization, to evaluate the level of students’ self-esteem and to assess the effect of students’ socialization on their self-esteem. The research was mainly based on quantitative analysis of the data. Descriptive Co-relational research style was used to conduct the study. Population of the study was based on 1069 students enrolled at master level from three private sector distance education universities at Islamabad. Convenient sampling technique was used to select five hundred and thirty three students as sample. Socialization assessment scale which was developed by the researcher in the light of model presented by chao et al (1994) and self-esteem assessment scale which was adopted from the work of Rosenberg, Schooler, Schoenbach and Rosenberg (1995) were used as data collection tools. It was found that majority of the students had good level of socialization (96.24%) and self-esteem (97.18%). Student socialization had 7.3% significant effect on the students self-esteem. It was recommended that the Distance education institutions may give rewards to those students whose take active part in different activities like parties, sports, drama functions and speeches due to which others are encouraged and become socialize and give positive response to own-self.