Impact of Educational Intervention Programme on Self Esteem of Rural Adolescent Girls of Ludhiana District of Punjab

The study was conducted on self-esteem of rural adolescent girls of five villages namely Hassanpur, Gahaur, Bahanur, Mansuran and Mohie of district Ludhiana. The girl students enrolled in 10th, 11th and 12th classes in each of the five government senior secondary schools were selected for the study. The total sample comprised of 153 girl students.  The pre test was done on rural adolescent girls to know about their level of self esteem and it was found that the girl showed medium level of self esteem.  Hence, need based intervention was imparted to enhance their self esteem. Post intervention results indicated that Intervention helped in improving their self esteem as all the girls fell in the higher category  in the following aspects like getting things they desired, confident about decision making, having more of success than failure, acceptance by people and successful at handling social interactions etc. The girls were helped to be confident and have a good personality with number of attempts and various methods.