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Subject: Human Development and Family Studies × End date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    A Study of Reproductive Behaviour of Teenaged Mothers of Bager Region of Haryana State
    (College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, 2003) Chaudhary, Manju; Jaswal, S
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    Individual and Contextual Traits as Determinants of Delinquency amongst Juveniles
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Sharma, Neha; Sharma, Seema
    The present study was undertaken to investigate the individual and contextual traits as determinants of delinquency amongst juveniles. The sample comprised of 120 respondents in 16-18 years of age range, selected from observation homes of six districts, from three cultural zones of Punjab. Further the sample was distributed over two sexes i.e. 80 juvenile delinquent boys and 40 juvenile delinquent girls. A self structured sheet was used to procure information regarding the socio-personal status of the respondents. Other scales used to collect the relevant information for the study were: Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck and Eysenck 1975), Cognitive Style Inventory (Jha 1985), Social Maturity Scale (Rao 1986), Emotional Maturity Scale (Singh and Bhargava 1990), Children’s Perception of Parenting Style (Pyari and Kalra 2005), Peer Pressure Scale (Saini and Singh 2012). The results revealed that majority of respondents reported accepting, overprotective and autocratic type of parenting styles. Most of the delinquents had shown psychotic and introvert personality and the most common cognitive style among delinquents was undifferentiated style. Low levels of social and emotional maturity were found in most of the delinquents. As far as gender differentiations are concerned delinquent girls had more introvert personality as compared to delinquent boys whereas delinquent boys had shown more integrated cognitive style. The study further depicted a positive significant correlation between delinquency levels and psychoticism dimension of personality while a negative significant correlation was found between delinquency levels and extraversion dimension of personality among delinquent girls. A positive significant correlation in delinquent girls was found between delinquency levels and intuitive cognitive style. A positive significant correlation was also found between delinquency levels and peer pressure among delinquent boys and girls. A negative significant correlation was found between socio-emotional maturity and delinquency level among juvenile delinquent boys and girls.
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    Dynamics of self-esteem of children with learning disability
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Sati, Lata; Vig, Deepika
    The present study explored the dynamics of self-esteem of children with learning disability. The total sample comprised of 80 formally diagnosed learning disabled children and their parents (fathers=80, mothers=80) selected from remedial centres/schools of Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Khanna. Self-esteem of children was assessed by using Self-Esteem Inventories (Coopersmith 1981). Academic anxiety of children was assessed by using Academic Anxiety Scale (Singh & Gupta 2009) whereas, emotional stability was evaluated by using Emotional Stability Test (Gupta & Singh 2003). Bisht Battery of Stress Scales (Bisht 2005) was used to assess school/ institutional related stress among learning disabled children. Perceived stress and social adjustment of parents was assessed by using Stress Profile (Nowack 1999) and Deva’s Social Adjustment Inventory (Deva 1990) respectively. ParentChild Relationship Scale (Rao 2001) was used to judge relationship of children with their parents. Perceived parental encouragement was assessed by using Agarwal Parental Encouragement Scale (Agarwal 1999). A self-structured checklist was developed to assess remedial teachers’ involvement and motivation. It was found that majority (67.50%) of the children showed medium level of self-esteem and had high academic anxiety, school stress and average level of emotional stability. Mothers were found to be more stressed in contrast to fathers. Parents were found to be socially well adjusted irrespective of self-esteem of learning disabled children. Mothers’ high loving and demanding nature in addition to object reward enhanced the self-esteem of the children. Majority (85.00%) of the children perceived high motivation from their remedial teachers. Correlation and regression analysis revealed that academic anxiety and school stress were significantly and negatively affecting the selfesteem of children whereas, symbolic reward by parents and teachers’ involvement and motivation were significantly boosting the self-esteem of the children.