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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: Joshi, Renu × Start date: 2011 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Development of personality assessment tool for juvenile delinquents
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-05) Joshi, Renu; Chandrakala Singh
    In the present study, Personality Assessment Tool (PAT) was developed and standardized to assess the personality traits of juvenile delinquents at the age group of 15 to 18 years which consisted of 72 items scored by using 5-point Likert scale. The Personality Assessment Tool (PAT) evaluates personality traits such as interpersonal skills, behavioural skills, emotional skills, and spiritual skills. The content validity, difficulty index and discrimination level of personality assessment tool was found to be excellent. The study was carried out in four observation homes in Haryana state (India) using the purposive sampling technique in order to standardize the tool. The sample consisted of 240 juvenile offenders including 180 male and 60 female from all districts of Haryana. Excellent results were found for the split-half and test-retest reliability coefficients. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was found non-significant at a 5 percent level of significance across age, gender, and locality, which indicate that this novel tool could be used for further research. The results revealed that the majority of respondents were found low in positive personality traits, whereas high in negative personality traits (aggressiveness, impulsivity, and anxiety). The regression analysis results showed that gender, father's occupation, annual family income, birth order, family type, mass media exposure, locality, parents education, education, and criminal history of the family, school dropout, peer influence, substance use, parent‘s interaction, and substance use in the family were significant predictors for causing variance in the interpersonal, behavioural, emotional, and spiritual skills of juvenile delinquents. Positive and significant correlation was observed in the socio-personal variables and interpersonal, behavioral, emotional, and spiritual skills of juvenile delinquents. It was found that locality, education, mass media exposure, father education, mother education, interest in further studies, locality, annual family income, father occupation, family type, sibling, criminal history of the family, school dropout, substance use, peer influence, substance use in the family and parents interaction were significantly associated with interpersonal, behavioural, emotional, and spiritual skills of juvenile delinquents. A significant difference was observed in the interpersonal skills, behavioural skills, emotional skills, and spiritual skills of juvenile delinquents across gender, number of sibling, interest in further studies, family type‘s, mass media exposure, education, parents education, parents occupation, annual family income, school dropout, substance use, and parent's interaction. It was imperative that juvenile delinquents should exposed to vocational training, yoga sessions, meditation, and spiritual healing, as well as cognitive behavior therapy, and counseling sessions in order to shape their personality in positive direction.