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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Human Development and Family Studies × Author: Chopra, Rupika × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2014 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Prevalence of depression among adolescents and contributing factors
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Chopra, Rupika; Punia, Shakuntla
    The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state on two groups of adolescents, one having transition from school to university atmosphere and another continuing their 11th and 12th in the same school atmosphere. To draw the sample for the first group, two colleges i.e., I.C. College of Home Sciences and College of Agriculture of C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar were purposively selected as these institutions admit children after 10th class. To draw the rural sample, three villages namely Neoli Kala, Behbalpur and Mangali were randomly selected having schools admitting girls and boys. . The final sample included 460 adolescents, 348 from rural government schools and 112 from university. The instruments used for data collection were the Kovacs’ Children Depression Inventory (2003), Rigby and Slee’ Peer – relationship questionnaire (1993) and Sarson’ Social – Support Questionnaire (1987). The analysis of data used t-test, correlation coefficient and regression. The results showed that majority of the respondents were female from rural area. The mean academic achievement of adolescents enrolled in university was better than school adolescents. More than half of families were nuclear in structure and medium sized having three siblings with income between ` 20,000 - up to ` 2,00,000. Results for peer – relationship showed that males to a higher level were involved in bullying and being victimized against females who used pro – social skills at higher level. Adolescents studying in 11th class were slightly lower in bullying whereas, they were higher in victimization and pro – social skills. Comparative mean scores showed that adolescents studying in university were more involved in bullying and being victimized against school respondents who were higher in pro – social skills.. From total sample 48.7 per cent adolescents received good social – support. Female adolescents reported good number of social – support as compare to male adolescents and were satisfied to a higher level with the support they received. Depression results revealed variations against gender and area on various aspects of depression among adolescents. 11th standard as well as females were more depressed as compared to their counterparts. Bullied and victimized adolescents frequently reported more depression whereas pro – social behavior acted as protective factor against depression. Non - satisfaction with perceived social – support lead to higher depression. Positive significant correlation of depression existed with academic class, educational institute whereas negatively and significant correlation with family size. Stepwise regression model for depression, indicated that academic class, total number of people (SSQN) and number of siblings were significant predictors of depression.