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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: Rathore, Manju Kanwar × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2014 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Parental encouragement and self-concept of 13 to 15 year old children
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Rathore, Manju Kanwar; Sangwan, Sheela
    Adolescence is the period of shifts of developing new relationships outside the family, parental support which continues to provide a guideline to self-concept and academic success. Selfconcept is influenced by feelings of success and competence, their abilities, feedback from peers, and how well they compare to the ideals they have for themselves. This research examines the influence of parental encouragement on self-concept and academic achievement of adolescents. The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state where two Government Senior Secondary Schools from rural area and two from urban area were selected. From each of the four selected schools of rural and urban area of Hisar, all boys and girls of 13-15 year were included in final sample. Self prepared questionnaire was used to delineate socio-personal variables and Parental Encouragement Scale (PES) by Sharma (1971) was used for assessing parental encouragement. Academic achievement score of children were obtained from the latest grade sheet of the examinations. Self- Concept of children was judged by Children’s Self –Concept Scale (CSCS) of Ahluwalia (1986). The results revealed that majority of the adolescents had received high level of parental encouragement and there were no gender difference in parental encouragement of adolescents. Parental encouragement had positive and significant correlation with self-concept of adolescents and rural respondents were better in selfconcept level than urban respondents. Academic class, self-concept, paternal occupation and number of siblings came out as significant predictors of the academic achievement of adolescents.