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    Quantitative and qualitative assessment of social support and digital addiction as correlates of purpose in life among adolescents
    (Punjab Agricultural University, 2024) Vitasta; Kang, Tejpreet Kaur
    The purpose of the present study was to ascertain the relationship of social support and digital addiction with purpose in life among adolescents. It also aimed to conduct case studies of identified typical adolescents with clarity or confusion of purpose in life. The study was conducted in two phases: phase I (quantitative phase) was based upon a sample of 500 adolescents in the age group of 16-18 years and was equally distributed across gender and locale. In phase II, 4 typical adolescents with clarity (2) and confusion (2) of purpose in life were selected to conduct case studies. A self-structured demographic information sheet, Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (Malecki and Demaray 2002), Internet Addiction Test (Young 1995) and The Youth Purpose in Life Scale (Chaddha and Bano 2018) were used to collect the relevant data. Results revealed that girls perceived more social support and had higher purpose in life as compared to boys. Further, adolescent boys displayed higher digital addiction as compared to girls. Locale differences showed that urban adolescents significantly had better social support and scored more in commitment towards goals, society-oriented goals and overall purpose in life as compared to rural adolescents. Significant locale differences were observed in digital addiction where urban adolescents displayed higher digital addiction as compared to rural adolescents. Correlational analysis revealed that purpose in life was significantly and positively correlated with social support. A statistically significant negative correlation existed between purpose in life and digital addiction.
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    Socio-personal variables and gender role attitude among adolescents
    (Punjab Agricultural University, 2023) Pant, Ulka; Vig, Deepika
    The purpose of the present study was to assess the gender and locale differences in gender role attitudes and socio-personal variables of 8th and 11th class adolescents along with the relationship of gender role attitude with selected socio-personal variables. The study was carried out on 240 adolescents, 120 each from rural and urban areas, and both genders were represented equally. A self-structured Personal Information Sheet was used to assess the demographic information. The Gender Role Attitude Scale (Modified) by Pareek and Jain (2019) was used to assess the gender role attitude of adolescents. A Self-Structured Media Influence Questionnaire was used to assess the influence of media in shaping gender role in adolescents. The Self-Structured Peer Influence Questionnaire was used to assess the influence of peers in determining the gender role attitude of adolescents. The results revealed that majority of the adolescents were in the transitional stage of gender role attitude and were under medium media and peer influence. Urban adolescents exhibited modern gender role attitude and experienced higher media and peer influence. A higher proportion of adolescent girls exhibited modern gender role attitudes as well as experienced higher media and peer influence as compared to boys. The adolescents of 11th class were more inclined towards modern gender role attitudes, when compared to class 8th adolescents. The Media Influence, Peer Influence and Father’s education were found to be significantly associated with gender role attitude. This emphasized that with increase in father’s education level, media influence and peer influence, the proportion of individuals with modern gender role attitudes increased significantly.
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    Correlates of academic achievement among adolescents during COVID-19
    (Punjab Agricultural University, 2023) Mahal, Ritu; Chawla Thakral, Asha
    The purpose of this study was to explore the correlates of academic achievement among adolescents during covid-19 and to provide a better insight into the role as well contribution of parents’ educational aspirations and expectations, psychological well-being, and virtual school environment towards academic achievement of adolescents. The sample for the study comprised of 500 adolescents in the age group of 16-18 years studying in +1 and +2 classes in the Government Senior Secondary Schools of rural and urban areas of Ludhiana and Moga the study. Thus, the total sample comprised of 1000 respondents (500 adolescents and 500 parents).A self-structured personal sheet, Parents Educational Aspirations and Expectations (Jacob 2010), Psychological well-being scale (Sisodia and Chaudhary 2012) and SelfStructured Virtual School Environment scale was used to collect the relevant data. The results revealed that majority of the adolescents belonged to medium level across various levels of psychological well-being. More percentage of girls had better psychological well-being than boys. Adolescents of Ludhiana district had better psychological well-being than Moga. Most of the adolescents were in medium level of virtual school environment. Most of the parents’ of adolescents were in high level parental educational aspirations and parents of girls had high parental educational aspirations and expectations than boys. Significant correlation was observed between psychological well-being and academic achievement among adolescents.
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    Dispositional resilience and self- awareness as correlates of mental health among college students during covid-19 pandemic
    (Punjab Agricultural University, 2023) Anmol Toor; Kang, Tejpreet K.
    The investigation entitled “Dispositional resilience and self-awareness as correlates of mental health among college students during covid-19 pandemic” aimed to assess the Dispositional resilience and self-awareness of college students as correlates of mental health. The study was conducted on a sample of 500 college students in the age range of 19-21 years studying in various undergraduate programmes offered by different rural and urban colleges of Ludhiana district of Punjab. The sample was equally divided between the two genders (250 males and 250 females) and locale (250 rural and 250 urban). The sample was randomly drawn from the selected colleges that were partially operating during the pandamic. A set comprising of three questionnaires was given to each respondent namely, General Information Sheet, SelfStructured Dispositional Resilience (Hardiness) Questionnaire, Mental Health Battery by Singh and Sengupta (2000) and The Self-Awareness Scale by Patteti and Podila (2019). Later the scoring was done and the results were tabulated. Results revealed that in the overall mental health scores, the male students performed better than the female students and the rural students performed better than the urban students, and rural females were found to perform significantly better than urban females. In the overall self-awareness, female students scored better as compared to the male students. Significant gender differences were found between the urban males and females in the commitment dimension of dispositional resilience. In the communication dimension of dispositional resilience, the rural males scored higher as compared to rural females, while in the urban area, the urban females scored higher than the urban males. Rural females scored significantly higher than the rural males in the overall dispositional resilience. Emotional stability, overall adjustment, autonomy, securityinsecurity, Intelligence dimensions as well as the overall mental health were found to have positive and significant correlation with commitment, control, communication and challenge dimensions of dispositional resilience.