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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 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Emotional Intelligence and self- esteem of adolescents
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Basanti; Sangwan, Santosh
    The present study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state. The objective of the study was to assess level and to identify factors affecting emotional intelligence and self esteem. Two schools i.e. Campus and Vishwas Senior Secondary School of Hisar city were selected randomly and two senior secondary schools of Kaimri from Block-I and Rawalwas from Block-II, Govt. School were selected. A sample of 120 rural and 120 urban respondents including equal number of males and females of 14-16 year age were taken, thus to make a total sample of 240 adolescents. Majority of males and females living in rural area had normal level of emotional intelligence followed by above average and below average. Similar trend was observed for urban respondents. Main finding revealed that regardless of locale, self-esteem of majority of adolescents was high followed by negative and balanced. Study further pointed out that irrespective of gender, self-esteem of majority of males and females was positive followed by negative and balanced. There were significant differences in emotional intelligence of rural, urban and in total sample on the basis of self-esteem. Positive and significant relationship existed between self-esteem and emotional intelligence of children. Children whose fathers and mothers were more educated had high personally and socially perceived self-esteem then those whose parents were less educated. Children form high income families had high self-esteem than those from low and middle income families. Regression analysis revealed significant positive interaction between socio-economic variables and socially perceived self-esteem of children indicating that socio-economic variables are strong predictor of personally and socially perceived self-esteem and emotional intelligence.
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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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    Self-esteem, achievement motivation and academic performance of high school children
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Priyanka; Balda, Shanti
    Self-esteem refers to person's beliefs about his or her worth and value. Self-esteem is important because it influences individual's decisions. Achievement motivation is described as the need for performing well or the motivated for success and evidence by persistence or effort in the facing the difficulties. Academic performance as well as achievement both is the outcomes of education and the extent from which a student, teacher and the institution has accomplished their educational goals. The present study examines the relationship between self-esteem, achievement motivation and academic performance of high school children. The study was conducted in Hisar city and rural area of Hisar district. Total sample constituted of 240 adolescents, 120 from rural area and 120 from urban area, representing both the sexes in equal number. Self-prepared interview schedule was used to collect information on personal and socio-economic variables. Self- Esteem Inventory (Prasad and Thakur, 1977) was used to assess self-esteem of children. Rao‟s Achievement Motivation Test (Rao, 1974) was used to assess achievement motivation of children. For academic performance, percentage of marks secured in previous three examinations was obtained from school records. The results revealed that maximum percentage of high school children belonged to moderate category of personally perceived and socially perceived self-esteem. Irrespective of area of residence and sex of children, self-esteem of majority of high school children was high followed by negative and balanced. Majority of children had moderate level of achievement motivation. Majority of children from both the areas belonged to above average category of academic performance. There existed significant positive correlations between self-esteem (personally perceived and socially perceived) and achievement motivation and academic performance of children. Children with balanced and high self-esteem had high achievement motivation and performed better in academics than those with negative self-esteem. Results further revealed that socio-economic status of family was strong predictor of self-esteem and achievement motivation of children.
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    Parental encouragement and educational aspiration of high school children in Hisar and Udaipur city
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Katara, Nootan Shambhulal; Balda, Shanti
    Parental encouragement is a general process taken up by parents for directing the behaviour of children. Educational aspirations are the standards of education that an individual sets for his educational goals realistically in relation to his physical and mental attributes and in accordance with his environment. Parental encouragement is a powerful intervening variable affecting children’s educational aspirations. The study examines the influence of parental encouragement on educational aspirations of high school children. The present study was conducted in Hisar city of Haryana and Udaipur city of Rajasthan state on 240 students comprising 120 from Hisar and 120 from Udaipur city. The sample represented equal number of boys and girls ranging in 13-16 years of age group. Parental encouragement level was assessed by using Parental Encouragement Scale by Sharma (1997). Educational aspiration was assessed by Educational Aspiration scale by Sharma and Gupta (2015). The results revealed that majority of children received moderate level of parental encouragement irrespective of area of residence, sex of child and affiliation of their school to educational board. Maximum number of children had moderate level of educational aspiration irrespective of area of residence, sex of child and affiliation of their school to educational board. The results elucidated significant relationship between parental encouragement and educational aspiration of children. The regression results also revealed that parental encouragement is strong predictor of educational aspiration. The study further unveils that there was no association between educational aspiration and area of residence, sex of child, caste, affiliation of their school to educational board and family type. Study highlighted significant relationship between educational aspiration and age, ordinal position, number of siblings, parental education and occupation, family size and family income. Simple factorial ANOVA for educational aspiration by paternal education, maternal education, income and family size with covariates (parental encouragement, area and educational board) revealed that when all independent variables entered simultaneously, results revealed ANCOVA model was significant. Combined effect of covariates and combined effect of paternal education, maternal education, income and family size were significant.
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    Evaluation of Strawberry Cultivars for Growth, Flowering and Fruiting at Hisar
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 2001) Singh, Lakshvir; Daulta, B. S.
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    Comparative study of social maturity among 2-4 years old rural children
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 2003) Singh, Shweta; Dhanda, Bimla
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    Comparative Study of Social Maturity Among Preschoolers
    (I.C College Of Home Science Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 2003) Bandwal, Pushpanjali; Dgabdam Bimla
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    Knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls and teachers towards population education
    (Department of Human Development and Family Studies I. C. College of Home Science Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 2002) Mamta; Punia, Shakuntala
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    Maternal teaching strategies and socio-educational values
    (I.C College Of Home Science Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 2001) Toshniwal, Swati; Kaur, P