Relationship of self esteem with forward head posture and round shoulder

摘要

The purpose of this study was determination of relationship between self-esteem (SE) with the forward head posture (FHP) and round shoulder (RS) in female students of Tehran University. In this regard 66 Subjects were randomly selected from female dormitory of Tehran University with age 26.62±2.04. Ayznek self esteem questionnaire was used to assessing self esteem subjects scores, goniometer instrument used for measuring FHP and scapular index used for RS., spearman correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between variables with SPSS-16. Findings showed that there was a negative medium relationship between RS and SE (r=0.35), but there was no any significant relationship between FHP and SE. These results showed that in female student, ST is decreasing when RS index increase and vice versa. This finding emphasize on relationship between psychological factors and posture. This research propos to assessing effect of RS correction on SE score in future studies.