Human Capital Dynamics: Dysfunctional Family Impacts on Self-Esteem of Male Adolescents Personality

Abstract

Human capital is a great blessing of the God. The Allah Almighty has blessed human being with abundant potentials and capabilities. For growth and development of potential human resource, along with other favourable factors like social and physical environment, the human capital needs a functional family. This is because of the reason that the families that are dysfunctional, do impacts human capital adversely, consequently the desired family is that one which has a viable functional environment. Therefore, for this study the objective was to investigate the relationship of dysfunctional family with the self-esteem of human capital the male adolescents’ personality. For this purpose, the primary data was collected through questionnaire from 137 human capital - male adolescents belonging to dysfunctional families in District Karak. The study has been quantitative in nature. For sampling purpose, the snowball sampling technique was employed to select the respondents, for gathering primary data from them only those male adolescents were included in the study who belonged to dysfunctional families. The SPSS software was applied to process the primary data. The data was tested through descriptive statistics, and the bivariate analysis was performed by employing chi-square test to examine the link between variables. The results exhibited that the dysfunctional families adversely affect the traits of human capital - male adolescents’ personality, including their self-esteem. Based on the study, it is recommended that the families’ functionality may be assured, and the adolescent’s personality traits and self-esteem may be mitigated in the dysfunctional families.

Keywords: Dysfunctional family, emotions, human capital, personality, and self-esteem.