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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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.
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Temperament, interpersonal competence and sociometric status of 6-8 years old children
(CCSHAU, 2011) Shahi, Veena; Balda, Shanti
The present investigation was conducted in Hisar city of Haryana state. From Hisar city, two schools affiliated to CBSE and two schools affiliated to HBSE were selected at random. From each school 40 children were randomly selected. Total sample constituted of 160 children, their mothers, class teachers and classmates. Malhotra Temperament Schedule (Malhotra and Malhotra, 1988) was used to assess mothers’ perception of their children’s temperament. Interpersonal competence of selected children was assessed with the help of Social Problem-Solving Test (Rubin, 1988). Sociometric status of children was assessed with the help of a peer rating scale developed by Asher et al. (1979) and Nomination Measure (Moreno 1934) modified by Negi (1999). Results revealed that temperamentally boys were more energetic than girls. For interpersonal problem solving, most frequently used strategies by children were non-forceful in nature. Results also revealed that there were no gender differences in quantitative features of interpersonal social problem solving skills of boys and girls, but, significant differences were found for usage of quality of strategies. Girls produced greater proportion of non-forceful strategies as compared to boys; on the other hand, boys suggested greater proportion of forceful strategies as compared to girls. On the basis of sociometric scores, children were grouped under five categories of sociometric status. It was found that majority of children were classified under the average category, followed by popular, rejected, isolated, respectively. Only a few children could be classified under the controversial category. Acceptance criterion for majority of children was being supportive and cooperative. Majority of the children cited aggressive behavior as the main reason for peer rejection. Results revealed that temperamentally highly sociable, highly emotional and highly rhythmic children obtained greater quantitative scores and suggested greater proportion of non-forceful and lesser proportion of forceful strategies. While on the other hand, distractible children were likely to obtain lesser quantitative scores and suggested greater proportion of forceful strategies. On the basis of categories of temperament, results showed that children who fell in high categories of sociability, emotionality and rythmicity were more likely to be accepted and positively rated and less likely to be negatively nominated by their peers than their counter parts who fell in low and intermediate categories of these temperamental dimensions. Children who were high in distractibility received greater scores on peer rejection. Correlations between sociometric scores and social problem solving scores revealed that accepted and highly rated children suggested greater number of strategies and greater number of categories of strategies. Also, these children suggested more relevant strategies and different alternatives and non-forceful strategies. While reverse was true for peer rejection. Peer rejected children suggested greater proportion of forceful and lesser number of non-forceful strategies in interpersonal problem solving tasks with their peers. Rejected and controversial children were more aggressive and impulsive as compared to other categories of sociometric status.
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Intervention programme for visualmotor integration skills of slow learner children
(CCSHAU, 2011) Saini, Renu; Sangwan, S.
The present study was conducted in rural and urban Hisar. Rural study was conducted in government schools of Mirkha, Bhojraj (block-I), Choudrivas and Muklan (block-II) villages of Hisar district and urban study was conducted in Buniyad School, Vishwas School, Bal Vidya Niketan School and Modern School of Hisar city. Eighty slow learner (70-90 IQ) and forty normal (90 and above IQ) children in the age group of 10-14 years were selected as rural sample. In same way 80 slow learners and 40 normal children were selected from urban area. Finally, 160 slow learner and 80 normal children were constituted as sample. The slow learners were further assigned to experimental (40) and control (40) group each for rural and urban area. The present study has come out with the development and implementation of intervention programme on visual-moor integration skills (VMIS) of slow learner, after assessing the existing level of slow learner children on VMI skills. Slow learner performed poorly as compared to normal children. Urban slow learner and normal children performed better than rural ones in VMI skills. Also, male slow learner and normal children performed better than female children in VMI Skills. The study has also attempted to provide an outline of factors affecting visual-motor integration skills of children. VMI skills of children were not affected by physical development status (height, weight). Significant association was found between VMI skills and home environment, school environment, personal and socio-economic status of children. To a large extent intervention programme enhanced, the visual-motor integration skills of slow learners. There was significant improvement in the mean score of slow learner after giving intervention programme. The study demands awareness on the part of family members, school teachers and all those who concerned with children to explore and enhance visual-motor integration skills of slow learners.
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Genetic and environmental Influences on the personality of preschool twins
(CCSHAU, 2016) Poonam Rani; Dhanda, Bimla
Genetic and environmental influences on personalitytraits of twins from five cultural of state Haryana were assessed. A sample of 200 pairs of twins in the age groups of 3-6 years were shorted out from already identified twins from five cultural zones. Personality traits were assessed with the helpof Five Factor Personality Questionnaire (Cathy, 2011). Regarding personal profile of the respondents, the results revealed that most of the twins were boys having one sibling and second ordinal position. Majority of the twins were living in joint family with large family size. With regard to parental education, highest percentage of twins were having their fathers educated above matriculation but were farmers. Where as mothers were educated upto middle school that was the reason they were homemakers. Result on the twins indicated that all the traits, namely, agreeableness, extraversion, neuroroticism, conscientiousness and openness were found to make significant difference in personality traits of twins on the basis of standard calculation. The heritability estimates shown a great role of genes in framing the overall personality of monozygotic twins.The associations of personality traits were significantly related to mother education, father education, and family income in Mewat zones. Preschool and home were also leading factors for personality differences in twins of all cultural zones.
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Psycho-social dimensions of disabled and normal male adolescents
(CCSHAU, 2012) Pant, Kusha; Dhanda, Bimla
The growth and development of a nation also, to a large extent, depends on the self-concept, aspiration and educational aspiration in disabled adolescents and their role in nation building. In view of the same, the present study was framed. The broad objective was to study the psycho-social dimensions (self-concept, adjustment and educational aspiration) of disabled and normal male adolescents. The study was conducted in the two cities of Haryana state i.e. Hisar and Gurgaon. Total sample size included 400 male adolescents (200 disabled male adolescents and 200 normal male adolescents). Children’s Self-Concept Scale developed and standardized by Ahluwalia (1980) was taken as an instrument to assess the self-concept of adolescents. For assessing the adjustment pattern of adolescents, Adjustment Inventory for School Students (2007) by Sinha and Singh was used. To assess the level of educational aspiration of adolescents, Level of Educational Aspiration Test by Khan (2010) was used. Home Environment Inventory by Misra (1989) was used to measure the psycho-social climate of home as perceived by adolescents. School Environment Inventory by Misra (2002) was used to measure the psychosocial climate of schools as perceived by the pupils. The scale, Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1995), was applied to assess a general sense of perceived self-efficacy. Comparison of the psychosocial dimensions (self-concept, adjustment and educational aspiration) of normal and disabled adolescents indicated that significant differences existed between the two groups. Self-concept, adjustment and educational aspiration of normal adolescents were significantly better than the disabled adolescents. Further, psycho-social dimensions of adolescents were found to be positively and significantly correlated to each other and, self-concept was found to be considerable in improvement of adjustment and educational aspiration of adolescents, irrespective of their abilities. Results indicated no association of age with the psycho-social dimensions in case of normal adolescents whereas, in case of disabled adolescents except educational, no association was found with rest of the psycho-social dimensions. Birth order was also not found associated with psycho-social dimensions. It was identified that ‘type of family’ matters as it affected the self-concept and educational aspiration of normal adolescents and adjustment of disabled adolescents. Investigation across size of the family disclosed that family size did influence the self-concept, adjustment and educational aspirations of normal adolescents, but not of disabled adolescents. Results further exposed that significant association existed between psycho-social dimension and family income, school achievement, number of siblings, educational status of parents and father’s occupation. Mother’s occupation of normal adolescents was found to be significantly associated only with self-concept. Analysis disclosed that psycho-social dimensions of adolescents were found significantly associated with the selfefficacy, home environment and school environment including all their sub-aspects. In conclusion, this study provides evidence that psycho-social dimensions (self-concept, adjustment and educational aspiration) are an integral part of an individual, especially, in the transitional adolescence years. Special attention in this context should be directed towards disabled adolescents, as these dimensions affect them significantly.
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Family functioning and mental health of adolescents
(CCSHAU, 2012) Nagarkoti, Vineeta; Punia, Shakuntla
Keeping in view the synergistic relationship between family functioning and mental health of adolescents, the present study was framed with the broad objective to study the family functioning and mental health of adolescents residing in two different residential areas to represent NCR and non-NCR. The study was conducted in two cities of Haryana state, namely- Gurgaon and Hisar. Total sample of the study consisted of 160 adolescents (80 males and 80 females) and their 160 parents (160 mothers and 160 fathers). Standardized tests were used to measure family functioning, communication, satisfaction, mental health and proactive coping skills of adolescents. Findings unveiled differences in the family functioning of two different residential areas. Balanced family functioning via cohesion and flexibility within the family was more prevalent in non-NCR families, whereas, non-NCR families had comparatively unbalanced family functioning. Higher family communication and satisfaction status was in full swing in non-NCR than NCR families. Family communication and satisfaction was positively significantly correlated with the balanced aspects of family functioning, i.e. cohesion and flexibility and negatively with unbalanced aspects of family functioning (disengaged, enmeshed, rigid and chaotic). Most significant predictors having maximum direct effect on the family functioning were academic achievement followed by maternal education and family income. Non-NCR adolescents were slightly better in their proactive coping skills than NCR adolescents, moreover females accounted for relatively better proactive coping skills than their counterparts irrespective of the area of residence. Results showed positive and significant correlations between family cohesion, flexibility, communication and satisfaction and adolescents’ proactive coping skills. Adolescents’ academic achievement, family size and family flexibility were the significant predictors and had maximum direct effect on adolescents’ proactive coping skills. Non-NCR adolescents had fairly sound mental health than NCR adolescents except for overall adjustment. Female adolescents had relatively better count in good level regarding different dimensions of mental health except emotional stability and security-insecurity dimensions of mental health. Academic achievement and school attendance were positively and significantly correlated with their mental health. Level of education and status of occupation of parents had significantly positive correlation with adolescents’ mental health. Family size was found to be positively and significantly correlated with mental health of adolescents. Balanced aspects of family functioning (cohesion and flexibility), communication and satisfaction had significantly positive correlation while, unbalanced aspects (disengagement, enmeshment, rigidity and chaos) had negative yet significant correlation with adolescents’ mental health. Positive and significant correlations between mental health dimensions and proactive coping skills of adolescents were identified. The significant predictors having direct effects on the mental health of adolescents’ were family satisfaction followed by family disengagement, academic achievement, paternal education, family communication and maternal occupation. In conclusion, sound mental health is of paramount importance during transitional phase of adolescence. Family plays a filter role in maintaining sound mental health of adolescents. High family functioning, strong proactive coping skills and the resulting familial factors like good family climate can make the adolescence phase of “stress and strain” more comfortable.

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

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