In our Indian Society, the level of Educational Aspiration and Self Concept are significantly influenced by the socio-economic status of the family. Lower level of Self concept reduces the level of aspiration to achieve the goal & mission of life, through education. Low educational aspiration leads to problems of unemployment, underemployment and unsuitable employment faced by students in their life. The aim of my investigation is to study the impact of Self Concept on educational aspiration of socio-economically advantage and disadvantage group i.e.Non-SC and SC female students of Xth class. For purpose of investigations, one self made questionnaire and two inventories were used. Three hypotheses were formulated and then test was conducted as per requirement. The obtained scores on educational aspiration & self-concept of the two groups namely; scheduled caste and non-scheduled caste were calculated separately. Means and S.Ds. of two main groups were calculated separately. After this 't' test was run to test the significance of difference between the mean scores of the two groups. Further, subjects were classified into high self-concept, normal self concept and low self-concept sub-groups. Then, educational aspiration scores of these sub-groups were compared. Socio-culturally disadvantaged group i.e. scheduled caste group has been found equipped with lower levels of self-concept which in turn might have lowered the level of educational aspiration of this group in comparison to socio-culturally advantaged group i.e. non-scheduled caste group.
