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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 × End date: 2018 × Start date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Quality of life and adjustment pattern among senior citizens
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Sunita; Sangwan, Sheela
    The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state purposively selected. For the rural sample 200 senior citizens of age group 60-70 years were selected. Hisar city was purposively selected and total 200 senior citizens were included in the study for urban sample, thus included total 400 senior citizens from both rural and urban area. Majority of senior citizens in both rural and urban area were in 60-65 years age group. Above fifty percent of urban senior citizens were having up to 4 family members Majority of senior citizens were married, living with husband-wife with one child. Female senior citizens were housewife whereas; males were ex-service man and farmers. Maximum numbers of urban and rural senior citizens were in medium category in all aspects of physical, psychological, level of independence, social relationship, environment, spirituality domains and overall quality of life and all areas of adjustment pattern. Significant differences were observed in all domains of quality of life except physical domain of urban and rural senior citizens. Quality of life and adjustments of younger senior citizens were better as compared to older senior citizens. There were significant differences in home, marital, emotional and financial areas of adjustment pattern of urban and rural senior citizens. Physical domain, psychological domain, level of independence domain, social relationship domain and environment domain of quality of life was significantly associated with area of residence of senior citizens. Overall quality of life was significantly associated with area of residence, occupation of male, marital status and annual income. Health and marital adjustment pattern was positively significantly correlated with occupation of senior citizens. Overall adjustment pattern was positively significantly correlated with family type and living arrangement of senior citizens. More number of rural senior citizens was in high category of depression as compared to urban senior citizens. Significant differences were observed in depression in between urban and rural area senior citizens. Depression was negatively and significantly correlated with all the domains of quality of life of senior citizens. To improve the quality of life of senior citizens some strategies were framed for all the domains of quality of life and adjustment pattern.
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    Ecological perspectives of bullying and victimization in school children
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Saini, Varsha; Balda, Shanti
    The present research study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. From Hisar city, two schools were selected at random to select urban sample. For rural sample, three schools were selected from Ladwa village of Hisar Block II. At stage 1, five hundred children were selected from Hisar city and 570 children were selected from Ladwa village (total 1070 children) from 6th to 10th classes. These children were assessed for bullying and victimization. Twenty rural and 20 urban teachers also participated in the study. Teachers provided information on nature and extent of different forms of bullying and places of bullying in schools. Two hundred bully-victims were identified to study ecological perspectives of bullying and victimization in school children. Out of these 76 per cent were boys and 24 per cent were girls. Results of the present study revealed that majority of the children were involved in mild bullying, victimization and bullying-victimization followed by moderate and severe categories. Majority of teachers (82.50%) reported that sexual harassment and deliberate exclusion (67.50%) were rarely observed in schools; 42.50 per cent mentioned that namecalling is observed occasionally. Equal percentage of teachers mentioned that physical bullying and cruel teasing (52.50%) was fairly often seen in schools. Peer nominated aggression and victimization scores were greater for severe categories of bullies, victims and bully-victims as compared to mild and moderate categories. These children perceived their parents' parenting practices less authoritative and more authoritarian and permissive. Severe categories of bullies, victims and bully-victims were exposed to more violence and violent behavior as compared to other categories. Boys were more involved in bullying-victimization in comparison to girls. Results clearly indicated was significant association between extent of bullying, peer-victimization, bullying-victimization and personal and socio-economic variables of bully-victims. Social skills were related to bullying and victimization behavior of children. Severe bully-victims were poor in social skills as compared to mild and moderate categories. Teachers used different strategies to cope with bullying and victimization in school children.
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    Adjustment among college youth in relation to intelligence and socio- emotional maturity
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Parminder Jeet; Duhan, Krishna
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state. Three technical and three non- technical institutions were selected from 3 blocks which were selected purposively from Barwala , Adampur and Hansi block were selected as per the demand of study. A study was undertaken on a sample of 600 respondents in the age range of 19-21 years which comprised 300 respondents of technical institutions and 300 respondents of non- technical institutions. Socio-emotional maturity, general intelligence, home environment, college classroom environment , college adjustment and adjustment scale developed by Social Maturity Scale Rao, 1986, Singh and Bhargava 1991, Test of General Intelligence by Mishra (1971), Home Environment Scale by Mishra (1983), College Classroom Environment scale (CCES) by Winston et al., (1989) Adjustment Inventory for College youth (AICS; Sinha and Singh, 1995) and College Adjustment Test (CAT: Pennebaker 2013) was used to assess the socio- emotional maturity and general intelligence and impact of home environment, college environment and socio-economic variables on adjustment. The finding revealed significant differences in all aspects of social maturity, Significant positive correlation existed between respondent’s college environment and adjustment. Whereas there was a non- significant correlation was observed between respondent’s general intelligence with adjustment of respondents of technical and non- technical institutions. The results further revealed positive and significant impact of home environment, college environment and socio-economic variables on adjustment of respondents.
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    Intervention programme for depression management among adolescents
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Chopra, Rupika; Sangwan, Sheela
    The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state on adolescents studying in 10th, 11th and 12th classes including boys and girls. To draw the sample, two villages namely Arya Nagar and Behbalpur were randomly selected to represent the rural sample and for urban sample, Government senior secondary schools of Patel Nagar and Satrod from Hisar city were randomly selected. The final sample included 500 adolescents i.e., 250 adolescents form urban area and 250 adolescents from rural area. The instruments used for data collection were the Kovacs’ Children Depression Inventory (2003), Rigby and Slee’ Peer – Relationship Questionnaire (1993), Sarson’ Social – Support Questionnaire (1987), Rosenberg’s Self – Esteem Scale (1989) and Family Relationship Inventory (1987). Independent sample t – test, Z – test, one – way ANOVA, correlation and paired ‘t’ test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that majority of the respondents were males and female adolescents were good academic achievers. More than half of adolescents’ families were nuclear in structure and medium sized from low family income group. Results for depression showed that female and urban adolescents reported higher negative mood, interpersonal problems, feelings of ineffectiveness, anhedonia, negative self – esteem and overall depression. Bullying and victimization behavior was slightly more in males residing in urban area whereas female adolescents from rural area reported more pro – social skills. Male adolescents from rural area perceived more social – support. Social – support quantity (SSQN) had negative correlation with depression and its all aspects. Female adolescents had good self – esteem and self – esteem was negatively significantly correlated with all aspects of depression and overall depression. Regarding the results for family relationship, study highlighted that urban adolescents perceived more parental acceptance whereas, rural adolescents perceived more parental concentration. Male adolescents perceived paternal avoidance more than female adolescents. Parental acceptance and concentration was negatively significantly correlated, whereas parental avoidance was positively significantly correlated with depression. Results envisages the significant differences in negative mood, interpersonal problems, feelings of ineffectiveness, anhedonia, negative self – esteem and overall depression among adolescents of experimental group after execution of intervention programme. Depression was significantly reduced in adolescents residing in rural as well as urban area at post – testing stage, thus showing the impact of intervention programme applied on them.