A Survey on Evaluating the Relation between Self-esteem and Quality of Life in Students of Health School Affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (2012)

Saeedinejat, Shahin; Ebrahimpour, Hosein; Tabatabaee, Seyed Saeed; Pourtaleb, Arefeh; Esmaily, Habibollah; Vafaee-Najar, Ali; Nejatzadegan, Zohre

A Survey on Evaluating the Relation between Self-esteem and Quality of Life in Students of Health School Affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (2012)

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

Shahin Saeedinejat ¹ ^¶

Hosein Ebrahimpour ¹

Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee ²

Arefeh Pourtaleb ³

Habibollah Esmaily ⁴

Ali Vafaee-Najar ¹

Zohre Nejatzadegan ⁵

¹ Health Sciences Research Center, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran

² Research Center for health Services Management, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IR Iran

³ Department of health services management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

⁴ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran

⁵ Student Research Committee, Health and Management Department, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Self-esteem is one of the essential human needs regardless of the individual’s social, scientific, and moral status. It has an exceptional role in one’s mental health and personality balance. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between self-esteem and quality of life in the students of Health School of Mashhad Medical Sciences University.
Methods and Materials: This study was a cross-sectional survey on 234 students of Health School of Mashhad Medical Sciences University in educational year of 2012-2013.Data were collected using WHO life quality questionnaire and Copper Smith selfesteem questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics methods (frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation), independent t-test and ANOVA using SPSS16 software.
Results: The findings showed that 61% of the students had a high quality of life with a good self-esteem indicating a statistically significant relation (p=.052).Among the five domains of quality of life; a significant relation was observed between social quality and self-esteem (p<0.05).
Conclusions: Students’ quality of life increases as their self-esteem increases. Since self-esteem influences students’ quality of life, performing child breeding educational sessions for promoting children self-esteem will help enhance children’s self-esteem and ultimatelyimprove students’ quality of life.

Keywords

Quality of life

student

self-esteem