Children of Medium-Low Socioeconomic Status Enjoy Greater Self-Esteem

An investigation of the universities of Salamanca and Córdoba reveals that children between 3 and 7 years old with a medium-low socioeconomic level have higher self-esteem than those of low and medium-high level. The authors believe that this work shows the need to implement school intervention programs with which to improve the self-esteem of the most disadvantaged and stigmatized groups.

“These results lead us to think that levels of self-esteem seem to be a consequence of certain specific socioeconomic situations,” Carmen Tabernero, a researcher at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Salamanca and director of the doctoral thesis at Antonio Serrano, tells DiCYT. Professor at the University of Córdoba Rosario Mérida, a work that addressed this issue.

The study included 1,757 schoolchildren from public and concerted urban and rural centers in Andalusia and collected five different dimensions of self-esteem: corporal, personal, academic, social and family. The conclusions show that the socioeconomic level significantly affected all of them, except at the social level.

Likewise, the sample of low socioeconomic levels carried out a personal self-assessment above that of the medium-high level in the personal, academic, social and family subscales. In addition, the…