UNDERSTANDING ACADEMIC SELF CONCEPT AND LOCUS OF CONTROL IN RELATION TO SELF REGULATION AND SELF ESTEEM WITH THE HELP OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Achieving academic success is one of the important part of every students life.
Academic success is not only related to scholastic abilities but also with the personality
factors of the students including their academic self-concept, locus of control, selfesteem
self-regulation. The current study has two fold aims. One is to understand
academic self-concept, locus of control, self-esteem and self-regulation independently
and two is to find out whether there exists any relationship between these variables
amongst STD IX students from SSC and CBSC board aided as well as unaided schools
students. The sample consisted of 1012 STD IX students from SSC and CBSC aided and
unaided schools. In order to collect data academic self-concept scale by D’Souza
(2006) to measure academic self-concept and the self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ)
by Brown, Miller and Lawendowski (1999) to measure self-regulation were used. In
order to collect data for locus of control Rooters Locus of Control Test (1954) was
used, for Self-Esteem Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965) was used .The result of the
present study revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between academic
self-concept and self-regulation and academic self-concept and self-esteem as well as
significant negative correlation found between locus of control and self-esteem and
locus of control and self-regulation amongst STD IX students belonging to SSC and
CBSC aided and unaided schools. Also there was significant combined relationship
found between academic self-concept, self-esteem and self-regulation and locus of

control, self-esteem and self-regulation.