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ThesisItem Restricted A Comparative Study of College Students from four streams of Education Regarding their Ideas on Development of Children(Department of Human Development College of Home Science, PAU, Ludhiana, 2002) Singh, RituThesisItem Restricted Impact of Maternal Employment on Personality Traits on Urban Adolescents(College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, 2005) bala, Renu; Nanda, PThesisItem Open Access Determinants of Breast-Feering Pattern Among Working and Non-Working Mothers(College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, 2008) Nidhi, Mahendru; Thind, SThesisItem Restricted Self-esteem and mental health of adolescents with selfie addiction(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Satinder Kaur; Vig, DeepikaThe current study was undertaken to study relationship of selfie addiction with self-esteem and mental health of adolescents. The total sample comprised of 360 adolescents studying in 10th, 11th and 12th standard from rural and urban schools of Ludhiana district identified with selfie addiction and equally divided across two sexes and locales. Self-structured Selfie Addiction checklist, Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith 1986) and Mental Health Battery (Singh and Gupta 2000) was used to collect the data. Results revealed that majority of rural and urban adolescents had medium self-esteem. Most of rural and urban adolescents with borderline addiction were found to have better self-esteem than adolescents with chronic selfie addiction.Selfie addiction was more related with various aspects of mental health in case of rural than for urban adolescents. Urban adolescents were having better emotional stability than rural adolescents. Gender differences revealed that boys as compared to girls were having high self-esteem. More number of boys with acute selfie addiction were found to have low mental health. Boys with chronic selfie addiction felt less secure as compared to girls. Urban boys across three levels of selfie addiction were more emotionally stable. Emotional stability was found influencing selfie addiction in case of urban girls and rural boys whereas, it showed no relationship in urban boys and rural girls. Within boys, mental health issues were exerting more influence on selfie taking behaviour of rural boys than on urban boys. Rural boys’ and urban girls’ mental health status was significantly more influencing their selfie addiction.ThesisItem Restricted HARSH PARENTING: A DETERMINANT OF AGGRESSION AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN RURAL FAMILIES(PAU Ludhiana, 2011) Manju Chawla; Sukhminder KaurThe present study was undertaken to assess the nature and magnitude of harsh parenting and aggression among 180 adolescents (12-16 years) equally distributed over different socio-economic strata (low, middle and high) drawn from six rural locations in Jagraon block of Ludhiana District. A Personal Information Sheet and a Self Structured Interview Schedule were used to assess the demographic profile and harsh parenting experienced by the adolescents. An Aggression Scale was used to determine the aggression level among adolescents experiencing harsh and non-punitive parenting. More than eighty five per cent (85.56%) adolescents experienced varied forms of harshness by their parents. Parents from low socio-economic status families were found to be severely harsh towards 30.00 per cent adolescents compared to adolescents from middle (10.00%) and high (6.67%) socio-economic status families. Fathers compared to mothers were found to be harsher towards the adolescents in all the socio-economic strata. Adolescents (33.33%) from low socio-economic status families experienced bruises followed by bleeding and burns as a consequence of physical punishment compared to few adolescents from middle and high socio-economic status families. Parents were found to be stricter towards male adolescents than females. Adolescents experiencing harsh attitude of the parents were found to be highly aggressive than the ones having non-punitive parents. Aggression was found to be more prevalent among boys compared to girls, however there were no significant age differences in the aggression level of the adolescents.ThesisItem Restricted Effect of value orientation on environmental ethics of rural and urban adolescents(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2016) Manpreet Kaur; Kang, Tejpreet KaurThe investigation entitled ‘Effect of Value Orientation on Environmental Ethics of Rural and Urban Adolescents’ aimed to assess the effect of value orientation on environmental ethics of rural and urban adolescents. The study was based on a sample of 200 adolescents (i.e. 100 rural and 100 urban) in the age range of 14-16 years. The sample was randomly drawn from four Senior Secondary Schools purposively selected from rural as well as urban areas of Kapurthala district. Self structured questionnaire was administered to collect information on social and personal characteristics of the adolescents. Personal Values Questionnaire by Sherry and Verma (2010) and Environmental Ethics Scale by Taj (2011) were used to assess value orientation and environmental ethics of the respondents respectively. Results revealed significant gender differences in value orientation of respondents. Females were scoring better than their male counterparts. Significant locale differences existed between social, democratic, economic, power and health values among rural and urban girls. In case of boys significant locale differences were found in social, democratic, power and health values. Significant gender difference existed in rural boys and girls whereas non-significant differences were seen in case of urban boys and girls. In environmental ethics gender differences in mean scores of rural boys and girls were found to be significant whereas among urban boys and urban girls these differences were non-significant. Religious, democratic and family prestige values had made a positive and significant contribution in the environmental ethics of respondents.ThesisItem Open Access Impact of Interventions on Academically Backward Children of Rural Primary Schools in Ludhiana(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2016) Sumandeep Kaur; Kanwar, VandanaThe investigation entitled, “Impact of Interventions on Academically Backward Children of Rural Primary Schools in Ludhiana” aimed to assess the academic (reading and arithmatic) skills, educational adjustment of the primary school children and teachers’ aptitude in teaching. The study was based on a sample 60 rural Primary School Children in the age range of 7-11 years. The sample was randomly drawn from Government Primary Schools where Experimental group n1=30 and Control group n2=30. Respondents were selected purposively from rural areas of Dehlon block, Ludhiana District. Results of the study indicated that educational adjustment is significant predictors of the academic achievement in primary school students. Educational intervention provided to academically backward children consistently and consecutively for the period of three months. Intervention contributed in gaining academic skills in Punjabi, English, Maths and Basic Operations of Maths as well as improvement in educational adjustment of academically backward children.ThesisItem Restricted INTERNET USAGE PATTERN AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2013) Vinita PandeyThe study was undertaken to analyze the internet usage pattern amongst the students of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. A proportionate random sample of 200 students was drawn from the four constituent colleges of the university. Questionnaire was developed to profile the students, study their use of internet for different purposes and identify the related problems. Majority of the students were in the age group of 21-25 years, resided in the hostel and were from nuclear families. Nearly half belonged to rural areas with family size upto 4 members (45.5%). Family education of sixty per cent was upto class 10th and 35.5 per cent had annual income upto 2 lakhs. Student were using internet for 1-2 hrs per/day and the hostel, home and library were most used places to access internet. Maximum time was spent in the hostel followed by library. One fourth were using internet for one hour and 2-4 hours each. The time use was maximum for academic followed by entertainment and social networking purpose. It was least for seeking information. Internet use was maximum for preparation of assignments/term papers and presentations. Virus infestation, non-response of server, strain to eyes, headache were the major problems faced due to internet surfing. Higher speed of internet, increase in number of computer in the library, availability of the Wi-Fi facility on the campus and training in use of internet were some of the important suggestions made by the students.ThesisItem Open Access Quality of Intergenerational relationships across families of working and non-working women of Ludhiana city(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2011) Kushagra JoshiThe present study investigates the quality of intergenerational relationships as perceived by the members of first (elderly parents) generation who co-reside with those of the second generation (son and his spouse). The study is based upon a sample of 120 families comprised of 480 respondents (fathers-in-law; mothers-in-law; sons and daughters-in-law from each family) drawn equally from upper- and lower-middle socio-economic strata and distributed equally over two groups by ‘working’/’non-working’ status of daughter-in-law. Various relationship issues, reciprocity and quality of relationship were assessed by administering either the standardized or self-structured research instruments. The results revealed significant socio-economic differences in perception for various relationship issues and quality of relationship between and within first and second generations for families with working and non-working daughter-in-law. Male members of both first and second generations from both socio-economic strata scored significantly more in their perception of quality of relationship. Only mothers-in-law of ‘working’ daughter-in-law perceived their relationship quality significantly better when compared with mothers-in-law of ‘non-working’ daughter-in-law in Upper-middle socio-economic status. Daughter-in-law and parents-in-law dyad reported significant inter-generational differences for more number of relationship issues than any other dyad. Members of first generation revealed congruence in perception for more number of relationship issues, reciprocity and quality of relationship where daughter-in-law was ‘working’ while, second generation revealed more perceptual harmony where daughter-in-law was ‘non-working’. Multivariate analysis revealed that work status of daughter-in-law and socio-economic status did not contribute significantly in prediction of quality of relationship in both the generations from upper as well as lower-middle socio-economic strata.