Level of Self-Esteem and Productivity among Primary School Teacher in Delta State, Nigeria

The study is ex-post-facto design of the correlation method. It aimed to investigate level of self-esteem and productivity among primary school teacher in Delta State, Nigeria. Delta State has twenty-five local government areas from which Seventy-five (75) teachers and twenty-five (25) head teachers making a total of 100 respondents as sample were randomly selected. The instrument for the study is a questionnaire titled ‘’Self-esteem and Productivity among Primary School Teachers’ Questionnaire (SPPSTQ)’’. The instrument was face and content validated, while test re-test method was engaged using 20 teachers who were outside the study vicinity. The computation was done using Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistics which yielded 0.81 coefficient. Mean score and standard deviation was used to answer research questions 1, 2 and PPMC for 3, while hypothesis was tested using regression analysis at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Findings revealed that the level of self-esteem and productivity is high; however, there was no significant relationship between the level of self-esteem and productivity among primary school teachers in Delta State, indicating no direct proportionate correspondent between teachers’ self-esteem and productivity. It was therefore recommended that teachers should work on their self-esteem especially in the areas of response to uncomfortable feedback; in order to improve on their self-esteem and productivity, teachers should undertake professional development courses and school heads and government agencies responsible for teachers training should organize trainings geared towards teachers’ self-esteem and productivity.