The relationship between self-esteem and depression with academic achievement in students of Dezful University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Since not familiar with the campus, detached from family and lack of interest in fields of study can create problems like depression and a drop in student performance, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and depression with academic achievement in students of Dezful University of Medical Sciences in 2014.Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study on nursing and anesthesiology students and classification assigned sampling was done after prior written consent. Data collection tools include Self Esteem Inventory (SEI), the Beck Depression Inventory and demographic information. Statistical data Pearson correlation coefficient test, Spearman correlation coefficient, linear regression, chi-square and t independently by software spss version 16 were analyzed.Results: In this study, 146 students, including 49 (33.6%) males and 97 (66.4%) were female. Of these 75 nursing students (51.4%) and 71 students of Anesthesiology (48.06%), respectively. The relationship between self-esteem and gender were statistically significant (p=0.02). Between self-esteem and depression (p =0.006) (r = -0.22) and between depression and academic achievement (p =0.002) (r = -0.25) in this students showed significant correlation.Conclusions: There is an inverse relationship between depression and self-esteem and academic achievement. Therefore, interventions for depression in this population due to other aspects such as self-esteem is particularly important.

Keywords:

Depression , self-esteem , academic achievement , students