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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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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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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.
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Self-esteem and mental health of adolescents with selfie addiction
(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Satinder Kaur; Vig, Deepika
The 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.
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Profile of the Activities, Problems and Self-concept of Rural School Going Children Engaged in Agricultural Labour
(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Simarjeet Kaur; Sukhminder Kaur
The present study was undertaken in one block of Sangrur district on a sample consisting of 160 (10-14 years old) rural school going children engaged in agricultural labour equally distributed over gender. A Personal Information Sheet and a self structured Interview Schedule were used to assess the demographic profile of the children, to identify the agricultural activities and problems experienced by them. A Self-concept Inventory developed by Saraswat (1992) was used to determine the self-concept of the children and the information relating to academic achievement was obtained from school records. Children were found to be engaged in various agricultural activities such as planting, weeding, irrigation, harvesting, plucking, digging, grading, picking and storage. Girls (100.00%) participated in weeding and there was no participation of girls in irrigation whereas, boys participated in all the agricultural activities. Both boys and girls were found to be working in various crops such as wheat, maize, pulses, potatoes, cotton, flowers and vegetables. Boys were found to be working in the fields of rice and sugarcane whereas, no girls worked in the sugarcane and rice crops and there were highly significant differences. Children faced various problems at school and at work due to their involvement in agricultural activities. Most of the boys (97.80%) and girls (75.00%) were unable to cope up with studies due to their participation in agricultural activities. A higher number of boys were found to be having short of attendance and lack of understanding in school due to participation in agricultural activities. Boys were physically punished and there were significant differences in punishment given to both boys and girls. At work more girls were underpaid as compared to the boys. Long working hours and no fixed working hours were found to be major problems faced by boys and girls at work place. Self-concept of girls was found to be higher as compared to the boys and it was found to be positively correlated with the academic achievement in case of both boys (r-value= 0.68; P<0.01) and girls (r-value= 0.71; P<0.01). The participation by the children in agricultural activities was not found to be associated with the selected demographic factors.
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Value Conflicts and Resolution Strategies to Improve Parent- Adolescent Relationship
(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Bagga, Ishina; Saini, Sarita
The present study was undertaken to investigate the patterns of values and value conflicts between parents and adolescents, to explore the parent-adolescent relationship and use of conflict resolution strategies by parents and their children. The sample comprised of 300 respondents; 100 school going adolescents equally distributed over gender (50 each) and their parents (fathers=100 and mothers=100) selected randomly from two schools of Ludhiana city. A self-designed Personal Information Sheet, Personal Values Questionnaire (Sherry & Verma 1971), Parent-Child Relationship Scale (Rao 2001) and a self-structured Conflict Resolution Strategies Questionnaire were used to collect relevant information for the study. The results revealed that parents valued religion and health more whereas adolescents reported greater preference for economic and hedonistic values. However, majority of adolescents perceived their parents to be highly protective, loving, moderately indifferent, symbolic punishment giving, low rejecting as well as object punishment giving. Adolescents perceived their mothers to be symbolically more punitive and loving than their fathers. Sons as compared to daughters perceived parents to be more demanding and object punishment giving. Analysis of conflict resolution strategies revealed that mothers were found to be more ‘collaborative’ than fathers in dealing with their sons in a conflict situation and daughters were more ‘collaborative’ than sons with both fathers as well as mothers. Nevertheless, daughters used ‘avoiding’ technique more with their fathers than with mothers. ‘Collaborative’ strategy was found to be the most effective conflict resolution technique in enhancing parent-child relationship and ‘avoiding’ technique was found to be negatively associated with the positive dimensions of parent-child relationship.
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Sexual harassment and psycho-social problems among rural school going adolescent girls
(Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2017) Asgola, Sugandha; Sukhminder Kaur
The present study was undertaken on a sample comprising of 200 respondents in the age range of 16 to 18 years in one block of Ludhiana district. A Personal Information Sheet was used to record data about the demographic profile of the respondents. A Self-structured Interview Schedule was used to document the incidence and identify the perpetrators of sexual harassment among the adolescent girls. A Comprehensive Anxiety Test developed by Sharma (1992), an adapted version of Security-insecurity Scale developed by Shah (1989) and Emotional Maturity Scale developed by Singh and Bhargav (1990) were used to assess the level of anxiety, security and emotional maturity respectively. An Instructional Booklet was developed for sensitizing the adolescents on the issue of sexual abuse and sexual harassment. Most of the adolescent girls (94.50%) were found to be experiencing sexual harassment. Very few of them (5.08%) experienced severe sexual harassment. Majority of the adolescent girls experienced verbal and non-verbal sexual harassment. Significant differences were observed in the physical sexual harassment experienced by the younger and older adolescents; older adolescents experienced more physical sexual harassment. The most common non-verbal indicators of sexual harassment experienced by the adolescents were whistling, winking and staring whereas receiving general comments and suggestive songs were identified as verbal indicators. Rubbing against in crowded places and pushing against in public transport were found to be the most prevalent form of physical sexual harassment. Strangers from adjoining villages, boys from victim’s village, roadside philanderer/flirts, relatives and classmates were identified as the perpetrators of sexual harassment. Sexually harassed adolescents were found to be having high level of anxiety, low level of security and unstable emotional maturity compared to sexually non-harassed adolescents. Statistically also there were highly significant differences among sexually harassed and sexually non-harassed adolescents on these variables.

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