Self-esteem of Children Living with their Parents for Secondary Schools in AL-Rusafa: Comparative Study to the Children Living in Orphanage

Abstract

Objectives: to find out differences in the level of self-esteem between orphanage children and children who live with their. Parents. Methods: A descriptive studies that use comparative design. The method of A Purposive sampling isused which is located in Rusafa, Baghdad. The sample size was 200 students (male and female) from all secondary schools in Baghdad al-Rusafa who lived with their parents, and another 200 adolescentwho lived in an orphanage. The data was collected during January 11th to March 2nd, 2021. Short form of (coopersmith,1967) scales for assessing self- esteem level. Results : The result of the study shows that highly significant differences are accounted between studiedgroups at P<0.01 regarding of studied “Negative’s Items Domain”, and “ Overall Evaluation”, while no significant different was accounted with reference to “Positive’s Items Domain”. Through the results of the significant comparisons, it becomes clear that the trends of the negative items of the scale are the distinguishing evidence between the two studied groups at the time when the outcomes of the positive trend items didn’t formed the presence of significant differences between the two groups.