An Investigation into the Relationship between Confidence in God, Self-Esteem and Academic Achievement among the Students

The present research tries to investigate the relationship between in God, self-esteem and academic achievement. To do so, 305 female students form a high school in Yazd were selected randomly through a cluster sampling. They answered Cooper Smith's standard questionnaires on confidence (tawkul) and self-esteem. The student's total grade of the students was the index of their academic achievement. The research is a descriptive–correlative one. The data were analyzed by such statistical indexes as Pearson's correlation and ANOVA. The research findings show that there is a significant relationship between all components of self-esteem (domestic, social, academic and general) and confidence in God (p<0.01). There is also a positive significant relationship between the academic achievement and confidence in God (p<0.01), but no significant relationship between academic achievement and confidence in God was noticed. Furthermore, the results of ANOVA test show no significant difference between the average scores of confidence in God and self-esteem among the students who took part in different courses.