Self-esteem and utilization of student support services on a high school campus
Institution: | California State University – Sacramento |
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Department: | Social Work |
Degree: | MSW |
Year: | 2015 |
Keywords: | Self-esteem; Adolescents |
Record ID: | 2062485 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/139334 |
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and utilization of student support services on a continuation high school campus as well as to explore the relationship between adolescents??? help seeking patterns and self-esteem. Responses from 47 participants were analyzed and showed that self-esteem had no relationship with utilization of services nor help-seeking patterns (t(45)=.-539, p=.593). The relationship between utilization of support services and help-seeking was approaching significance and indicated that students who utilized support services had slightly higher help seeking willingness than students who did not utilize support services t(18)=2.089, p=.051). Findings indicate a greater need for more research involving help-seeking patterns and adolescents in high school.