Adolescent / Youth Health is an important public health issue. Adolescent and Youth are defined as 10-19 and 15-24 years old by the World Health Organization, respectively. Adolescent / Youth Age was accepted that the transition from childhood to adulthood age, generally. Adolescents and Youths experience some of the changes in the physical, psychological, cognitive, social and economic areas (1). The University students constitute an original group with their specific features among youths. They are people who have developmental problems. With the start of the university life, some problems have been observed in the students. The major problems are as follows: Socio-cultural environment changes, living away from family, new friends, …show more content…
This Inventory developed by Goslig et al. (10). Reliability and validity study of this Inventory was made by Atak (11). Inventory included five personality types. In the Inventory, 1st and 6th questions as "Extroversion", 9th and 4th questions as "Emotional stability", 5th and 10th questions as "Open to experience", 3rd and 8th questions as "Responsible" and 2nd and 7th questions as "Docile" to reveal personality traits. For each personality type, each question is scored from 1-7, received a total score of 2 to 14. The highest score of personality type has been …show more content…
The necessary permits for this study are obtained from the administrative unit of these schools. And this study received Ethical Committee approval (Date: 11.12.2014 and Number: 262). Additionally, verbal consents were received to this study from each participant.
Qui square test, student t test, Wald Backward stepwise logistic model were used for statistical analyses. The variables that p0.05). But it reported that positive a relation between masculine sex role identity and high level of the self-esteem (15). This result may be related to the education and social roles of the women in this study area. Because of that our study group composed from the university students, the effect of gender on self-esteem may not be shown. About women, hypotheses are available as about increased self-esteem the positive effects of increased social status and assume the roles of men.
However, some studies (16-18) reported that self-esteem among boys tends to increase, while self-esteem among girls tends to decrease in early adolescence ages. But our study group left back to adolescence. They are university