IMPACT OF STRESS, SELF-ESTEEM AND GENDER FACTOR ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

The current study is conducted to evaluate the impact of stress and self-esteem and gender’s effect on
students’ academic performance in selected private universities of Pakistan. Three hundred students from
different private universities of Pakistan were surveyed using cluster random sampling technique by means of
Rosenberg self-esteem scale and perceived stress scale questionnaires. Factor, regression analysis, correlation,
and t-test were employed. The findings revealed that self-esteem and stress are strongly correlated with each
other but gender has no significant impact on students’ GPA, level of stress and self-esteem of the surveyed
students. Moreover, when impact of self-esteem and impact of stress on GPA were analyzed discretely, it was
found that both of these cognitive factors did not significantly correlate with the academic performance of
students. Hence, this study revealed that the level of stress and self-esteem are not as influential on academic
performance of students in private universities as it is affirmed in the literature available on the subject matter.