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Subject: Human Development and Family Studies × End date: 2009 × Start date: 2005 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Impact of Maternal Employment on Personality Traits on Urban Adolescents
    (College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, 2005) bala, Renu; Nanda, P
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    Determinants of Breast-Feering Pattern Among Working and Non-Working Mothers
    (College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, 2008) Nidhi, Mahendru; Thind, S
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    Assessment of family support to rural disabled children
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2006) Yadwinder Kaur
    The study was conducted to assess the family support provided to rural disabled children. The age of the focus child was below 12 years. The sample consisted of 150 families having children with either of the four disabilities viz orthopedically challenged, mentally challenged, speech and hearing challenged and having multiple disability. The study was conducted in the rural areas of Ludhiana and Sangrur districts, taking 100 families from Ludhiana districts and 50 families from Sangrur district. A self structured interview schedule was used for data collection. Observations were also recorded during home visits. Results revealed that parental way of understanding the disabled child affected the quantity and quality of care provided to the disabled child. Family type, number of siblings and working status of parents influenced the care of the disabled child. Disabled child needs extra time for his/her care. Their needs must be understood by the family members. But when these needs were not understood, the care was affected to large extent and leads to irritated behaviour of the family members towards the disabled child. Lack of parental knowledge, economic problems and lack of resources affected the care. Quantity and quality of care was also associated with the parenting style followed by the parents to understand their child, to fulfill their needs and to socialize them in an effective way. Sibling relationship was different when one of the sibling is disabled. Siblings feel neglected and target of frustration of their parents which was due to their disabled sibling. They had feelings of love and care towards their disabled siblings.
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    TRENDS OF INTERNET USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS: IMPACT ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL COGNITION
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2009) Namita Tomar
    The present study was conducted to assess the trends of internet use among adolescents and impact on their health and social cognition. The sample was comprised of 120 adolescents in 14 to16 years of age range, purposively selected from four private senior secondary schools of Ludhiana city. Results revealed that frequency and degree of internet use was significantly higher among males as compared to females. Majority of the adolescents spent 2-4 hours a day on internet. The most commonly visited websites by adolescents were chat-room followed by e-mail, orkut, music sites, search engines and educational sites. The prevalence of different types of physical and psychological health problems was higher among females as compared to males. The association between internet use and physical health problems was positively significant for urinary problems (such as frequent urination during day and night) and fatigability. Psychological inadequacy and depression was positively significantly correlated with internet use. Although the association between internet use and different dimensions of social cognition was non significant, yet, the maximum number of high internet users had low social cognition whereas largest percentage of low internet users had high social cognition.