Abstract: In stressful and competitive social life people try to live fit in all possible ways. Their effort to live physically as well as mentally fit gives success and happiness in the life. With objective to see the effect of psychosocial stressors on children and adolescents of ages between 8 years to 14 years from middle and low socio-economic family. The major criteria to qualify as a sample was that the sample should be with subnormal intelligence (IQ >70 & <90) and with low self-esteem. A group of total 32 children and adolescents could be taken as a sample for this research which was found with help of administering Binet- Kamat Test of intelligence and Rosenberg self-esteem Scale. Developmental psychopathology Checklist was applied on each 32 children and adolescents. The data was analysed using product moment correlation method with help of statistical software, named Python panda. The research finding shows that psycho-social stressors affect the children and adolescents negatively irrespective to their age, gender and socio-economic conditions. The children and adolescents having low self-esteem with the intellectually subnormal condition may develop psychopathic symptoms. This research also reveals that males are more prone to develop psychopathic symptoms. Similarly, children are found more sensitive toward psychosocial stressor to develop psychopathology and middle-class children and adolescents are more prone to develop psychopathology than the low socio-economic status.
Keywords: Psychosocial stressors, Low self-esteem, Psychopathology, Intellectually- subnormal.
Title: Low self Esteem and Psychopathology in Children with Subnormal Intelligence
Author: Prachi Sharma, Dinesh Panchal
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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