Self Esteem, creativity and academic achievement among Secondary school students
Abstract
The study aimed at finding out the relationship between self-esteem, creativity and
academic achievement among secondary school students. The study adopted a cross-sectional
survey design. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 60 respondents
from the population. Data was collected from respondents using self-administered standard
questionnaires and through entering fully filled questionnaires into computer software program
called Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23, data was analyzed. Results from
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r) indicated that there is a significant positive
relationship between self-esteem and creativity; there was no significant relationship between
self-esteem and academic achievement.Accordingly, there was a significant positive relationship
between creativity and academic achievement.Based on these findings it can be recommended
that, policy makers, and administrators should provide separate courses which are related to
creative thinking. Curriculum should be modified in order to provide classes which cause
students think creatively about topics through recognizing, understanding, and analyzing the
knowledge in new environments.