TY - JOUR JF - gums-rme JO - RME VL - 8 IS - 2 PY - 2016 Y1 - 2016/6/01 TI - Self-esteem in students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences TT - بررسی وضعیت ابعاد عزت نفس در بین دانشجویان دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گیلان N2 - Introduction: Students particularly, students of medical sciences not only experience problems that other students have but also they confront specific problems that are related to their job so that, they are threatened more by losing their psychological health .definitely, Self-esteem, is the most important factor in mental growth, also effective factor in academic achievement .this study has been done for determining self-esteem in students of guilan university of medical sciences. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study. In this study, statistical population including 2866 students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences that 537 of them were selected through stratified random sampling method in 93-94. The data were collected through cooper- smith self-esteem questionnaire in 4 domains (general esteem, social, family and educational) and demographic questionnaire and were analyzed by using inferential statistics ,Kolmogorov- Smirnov , Friedman test and SPSS software. Results: The results showed that the mean and standard deviation score of self-esteem in general dimension (19.51±4.29) , the social dimension (5.35±1.29) , the family (6.37±1.69), educational (5.62±1.68) and total self-esteem was reported (36.82±6.97) respectively. also, there is significant difference among mean score of self-esteem with sex of students(p=0.015),course(p=0.023), willingness to course (p=0.0001) and failing in one credit(p=0.013). Conclusion: According to the result , the highest mean score of self-esteem was related to familial domain and the lowest average was in terms of social self-esteem, so, considering the importance and necessity of self-esteem in academic achievement, holding educational workshops to strengthen Self-esteem by focusing on different effective factors is suggested SP - 18 EP - 26 AU - Asgari, F AU - Mirzaee, M AU - Tabari, R AU - Kazemnejad Leili, E AD - Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran KW - Self-esteem KW - students KW - Dimension KW - Medical Sciences UR - http://rme.gums.ac.ir/article-1-312-en.html DO - 10.18869/acadpub.rme.8.2.18 ER -