CORRELATION BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN WOLKITIE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to assess the relationship between self-esteem and social interaction in students of Wolkitie University. A correlational design that involves only quantitative method was employed to examine the existing correlations among self-esteem types and corresponding social interactions of students. A stratified random sampling technique was employed to select samples from the target population (third year and four year students in four departments of Business and Economics faculty). Consequently, data was collected from 78(m=46,f=32) students through questionnaire and analysed by Pearson's product-moment correlation formula using SPSS. Besides, an independent t-test was also employed to test existence of significant difference between gender on the existing self-esteem to social interaction relationships. The major findings of the study showed that, though the correlations of self-esteem to social interactions are insignificant, relatively students with high self-esteem have stronger informational(r= 0.148 )and emotional (r=0.107) types of social interactions unlike those with low self-esteem who had negative social interactions( r=0.291). The result also revealed that there is no significant difference between being male or female(gender) on the purported self-esteem to social interaction relationships(see, table6,p.29). Based on the findings, the conclusions are drawn and recommendations are forwarded