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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: Pinki × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Parental aspiration and academic stress among adolescents
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Pinki; Duhan, Krishna
    Academic stress is a mental discomfort with respect to some expected frustration related with academic failure. Parents which serves as first school for the child appears to be an important source of rising expectation, therefore the study was conducted to examine the relationship of socio-personal variables, parental aspiration and academic resilience with academic stress. The study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state in govt. and private schools of Hisar city and Kharkara village on 200 adolescents of arts and science stream. The sample represents equal number of boys and girls ranging in 16-18 years of age group comprising equal sample size with regards to area of residence and stream of education. Parental aspiration scale by Grover and Grover (1987) was used to assess perceived parental aspiration of respondents, academic resilience scale by Mallick and Kaur (2015) was used to assess academic resilience, mental health inventory by Jagdish and Shrivastva (1983) to assess mental health and academic stress scale by Rao (2012) was used to assess academic stress of respondents. The finding elucidates that urban respondents perceived higher parental aspiration and had more academic resilience than rural respondents. The results further highlighted that female respondents perceived higher parental aspiration and had low academic resilience than their counterparts. With regards to mental health, results portray better mental health of urban respondents than rural respondents. Results further revealed that urban respondents face more academic stress than rural respondents. Results further pinpointed that ordinal position, occupation of mother, parent’s income and academic resilience of the respondents was significantly and negative correlated with academic stress. Parental aspiration and parent’s education was significantly and positively correlated with academic stress.
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    Attitude of adolescents towards Modernization”, submitted for the degree of Master of Science
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Pinki; Sangwan, Santosh
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state. The objective of the study was to identify the factors affecting the attitude of adolescents towards modernization. Two senior secondary schools of Hisar city and two senior secondary schools of Aryanagar and Dabra village one each from Hisar block I and Block II were selected as per the demand of study. A sample of 100 rural and 100 urban respondents including males and females of 16-18 year age studying in 11th and 12th standard were taken, thus to make a total sample of 200 adolescents. A significant difference was revealed between mean scores of modernization among adolescents boys and girls in level of modernization. As the mean scores of girls were higher they were more modernize than the boys. The results revealed significant difference between mean scores of modernization among rural and urban adolescents which indicated that rural and urban adolescents differ in their level of modernization. All the aspects of attitude of modernization except marriage were found to be positively and significantly correlated with socio-economic variables. Further results revealed that all the aspects of attitude of modernization except parent-child relationship, were found to be positively and significantly correlated with family environment of adolescent.