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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Old age involves a number of other changes that might contribute to declines in self-esteem, including spousal loss, decreased social support, declining physical health, cognitive impairments. Main objective of the study is to measure impact of ageing on self-esteem of older people and to find the factors affecting the self-esteem of older people. Self -esteem of the respondents was measured on three different aspects- Performance self-esteem, Social self-esteem and Appearance self-esteem. Result indicated that nearly half of the respondents had medium and high level of Performance self-esteem and medium level of Social self-esteem. Majority of the respondents had medium level of Appearance self-esteem followed by low level of Appearance self-esteem. It was found that the respondents who have higher level of education had high level of performance self –esteem.