SELFACCEPTANCE

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself ,inspite of being unacceptable”

- Paul Tillic

The importance of selfacceptance is well understood from the above words.If you donot accept yourself you will face many problems in your life.Unless you accept yourself you completely fails to enjoy your life. The meaning of self acceptance is to accept our shortcoming as well as our accomplishment .We all have faults and successful moments in our life.Getting through life happily and peacefully requires us to understand ourself well .According to Shepard (1979), self-acceptance is an individual's satisfaction or happiness with oneself, and is thought to be necessary for good mental health. Self-acceptance involves self-understanding, a realistic, albeit subjective, awareness of one's strengths and weaknesses.

The most important tool one can use to achieve success is self acceptance.What self acceptance does is it open up more possibilities of succeeding because you are not fighting yourself along the way.Selfacceptance at its core is being happy with who you are in the present moment and loving yourself who you are right now.

IMPORTENCE OF SELFACCEPTENCE

If you have selfacceptance it help you to:

Enjoy your life Find your correct place in the world Stop fighting you and begin tofight for you Free others to love you or not

A study was conducted several months before among 20 student teachers of SreeNarayana college of education inorder to understand their selfacceptance.A tool containing thirtyfour questions were prepared , and distributed among student teachers.The tool was a questionare containing thirtyfour true or false questions.

QUESTIN NUMBER CORRECT RESPONSE

1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 12, 14 , 17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32

FALSE

3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 33, 34

TRUE

EVALUATION STRATERGY

RESPONSE

MARK

TOTAL

Correct 1 34

Wrong 0

RANGE

RANK

25-34

Above average

17-25

Average

Below 17

Below average

The score achieved in this test by the twenty student teachers are given below:

SCORE BOARD

SL.NO

NAME SCORE RANK

1 AfnaMeeran 13 Below average

2 Alisha Bava 12 Below average

3 Ansalymol Thomas 8 Below average

4 Anu Thomas 13 Below average

5 Archana C M 14 Below average

6 Aruna M A 21 Average 7 AyshaBai M 17 Average 8 Chinju P E 16 Below

average9 Deepthy Sivan 9 Below

average10 Devika K M 13 Below

average11 Geethupriya K P 9 Below

average12 IsmathBasheer 15 Below

average13 Jimiya Joy 13 Below

average14 Nethra Joseph 22 Average 15 Remya M T 16 Below

average 16 Rincy M M 9 Below

average17 Seenamol M K 14 Below

average18 SethulakshmiChandra

n17 Average

19 ShibinaShaji 19 Average 20 Vidhya M 20 Average

The above table reveals that among twenty student teachers no one is above average with regards to selfacceptance.Only six students are above average and sixteen are below average.That means only 30% student teachers are average and 70% are below average with regard to selfacceptance.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

RAW DATA13, 16, 20, 12, 13, 14, 21, 8, 16, 14, 17, 9, 9, 9, 13 , 19, 17, 13, 22 , 15FREQUENCY TABLE

CLASS TALLY FREQUENCY(f)5 -10 //// 4

10 - 15 //// // 715 – 20 //// / 620 – 25 /// 3Total 20

MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

CLASS FREQUENCY(f)

Mid x f * x Cumulative frequency( cf)

5 – 10 4 7.5 30 410 – 15 7 12.5 87.5 1115 – 20 6 17.5 105 1720 - 25 3 22.5 67.5 20total 20 290

MEAN

Mean = ∑f×x ∑f = 290 = 14.5 20MEDEAN

Median = L+( N2 −cf )h

f=10+( 20

2−4 )5

7 =10 +4.28 =14.28

L → Lower bound of medium class

cf→cf of the class proceding the medium class

N →Total frequency

h→class width

f→frequency of medium class

Here, L=10 ; cf=4 ; f=7 ; N=20

MODEMODE = 3×Median−2×Mean =3×14.28 - 2×14.5 =13.84

CLASS

FREQUENCY

MID X d =X-X 5

f×d d2 f×d2

5 – 10 4 7.5 -1 -4 1 410 – 15

7 12.5 0 0 0 0

15 – 20

6 17.5 1 6 1 6

20 – 25

3 22.5 2 6 4 12

Total 20 8 22STANDARD DEVIATION (S.D)

MEAN= 14.5

MEADIAN=14.28

MODE =13.84

S .D = h((∑fd 2)/N−[(∑ fd)/N ]2)1 /2

=5×( 2220

−[ 820 ]2

)1 /2

= 5×(1.1−.16)1 /2

= 4.8MEAN DEVIATIONCLASS FREQ

UENCY

Mid X d=X−X

|d| f×|d|

5 – 10 4 7.5 -7 7 2810 – 15

7 12.5 -2 2 14

15 – 20

6 17.5 3 3 18

20 – 25

3 22.5 8 8 24

Total 20 84X=10.5

M.D= ∑f |d|∑ f

= 8420 = 4.2RANGERange=Highest value — Lowest value

=22-8 =14

QUARTILE DEVIATION

CLASS FREQUENCY

Mid X cf

5 – 10 4 7.5 410 – 15

7 12.5 11

15 – 20

6 17.5 17

20 – 25

3 22.5 20

Total 20

Q . D=Q3−Q1

2

Q1=10 +( 5−47 )5

=10.71

Q1=L1+( N4 −cf

f 1 )hQ3=L3+( 3N4 −cf

f 3 )h

L1=10

N4 =20/4

Cf=4

Q3=15 +( 15−116 )5

=18.33

=18.33−10.712

= 3.81

GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONGraphical representation of frequency distribution:

1. Histogram2. Frequency distribution3. Frequency curve4. Ogive

L1=10

N4 =20/4

Cf=4

Standard Deviation = 4.8

Mean Deviation = 4.2

Quartile Deviation= 3.81

Range = 14

class

Mid x

frequency

Lower bound

Greater than cf

Upper bound

Less than cf

5-10

7.5 4 5 20 10 4

10-15

12.5

7 10 16 15 11

15-20

17.5

6 15 9 20 17

20-25

22.5

3 20 3 25 20

SUMMARY OF THE TESTOut of 20 student teachers of SreeNarayana College OfEducaion:

number of student teacher with above average self acceptance=0

number of student teachers with average selfacceptance =6

number of student teachers with below average self acceptance =14

CONCLUSION

Selfacceptance is a lifetime journey that allows you to stop trying to change yourself into the person you are not and at the same time discovering the real you .Self acceptance bring you a lot of transformation both emotional and physical ,and indeed the end result is true happiness.Some benefits of embracing self acceptance are:

you become less defencive it become easier to maintain close

relations it lead to valuing and appreciating

yourself others fully

SUGGESSIONSTo enhance selfacceptance one can follow the following stratergies:

Celebrate your strength Speak your highest self Talk to yourself Practice relaxed awareness Learn from all part Separate from your emotions

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