RESUMEN
Human attempt to recognize and regard himself has been an established fact confirmed by historical documents and also by contemporary psychology and many psychologists have considered it very seriously. Recognizing values, needs, human goals and the most important one, self-esteem, has especial importance. This study was conducted among 200 students [151 girls and 49 boys] in 15 majors selected by simple randomization method to study the factor of self-esteem and its attributive factors in the students who passed their last study year in Shahid Sadoughi Medical Sciences University in Yazd City, Iran. The data collecting method was Izeng's standard questionnaire consisting of 30 questions in which the total of grades were also 30. The average grade was 21 while the individuals getting more than 21 grade called the good self-esteem owners and the ones getting less than 21 were those having emotional instability and inferiority complex. The resulted findings showed that the age, occupational satisfaction level, major, educational level and students' mothers' educational level influence the students' self-esteem. In this study, the highest achieved self-esteem grade was about 29.5, the least one was 3.5 and the average grade was 20.72. In respect of the major, the maximum self-esteem grade secured by 16/6 midwifery students [24] and the minimum was shown in family health major students. It is necessary to conduct the plans to increase students' self-esteem so that the positive changes, for instance, making attempts to achieve more success, tendency to be more healthy and so on may be created in them