ere around 75. This is not consequential to our study though because we are not measuring how much self esteem each group as, as much as we are measuring who had a greater level of self esteem. No matter what the score were we were able to establish a higher group and a lower group. Another problem with the questionnaire is that people were unclear as to how to answer the questions properly. Which may have been another reason for the low scores. Even with the problems identified we were able to process our data and make an intelligible statement. Athletes were shown to have a higher level of self esteem. They scored 8 points higher than their counter group. There are many reasons which may be associated with these findings. Athletes competing at a college level are competing at a very high level of competition. You must be very skilled to compete at that level. If you happen to have these abilities which allow to do this then its likely that your aware that you are apart of an elite group of individuals with inflated ego’s. Which brings me to my next point. Athletes are stereo typed as having big egos which may be why they have a higher self esteem. The sample size for the athletes was less than half of the size of the non athletes. If they had been even in numbers there’s a possibility that the results may have changed. To succeed people need confidence and confidence is directly associated with self esteem. Every one of the athletes have achieved success in their area of play. Leading me to believe that they must have a good self esteem. On this same note these athletes have something to feel good about which in turn helps there self esteem.The other group was the non athletes. There were 70 people in this group. This could be one of the possibilities why they score lower on average. Even though they scored lower there stats were varied. Some of the people scored very high and some very low, the range for the scores in th...
