Vol. 9, Issue 7, Part B (2023)

Abstract
A sample of 100 school children was intentionally selected to investigate individual factors influencing the self-esteem of hearing-impaired (HI) and normal-hearing (NH) children, of which 50 hearing-impaired and 50 normal-hearing children (7th grade) were intentionally selected from institutions for the deaf. and mute and ordinary upper primary schools of Rewa district in 2021-22. Heatherton and Polivy's (1991) State Self-Esteem Scale, Aggarwal et al. (2005) Socio-Economic Scale were used to assess self-esteem, and a general information plan was used to collect personal information. The results showed that the majority of both the HI (52.00%) and NH (68.00%) groups had a medium level of self-esteem and a significant difference was found between the hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children in their self-esteem, where the normal-hearing children had significantly higher self-esteem than hearing impairment. Hearing impaired children had significantly lower performance (50.00%), social (62.00%) and appearance (72.00%) self-esteem than normal hearing children.