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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: Jyoti × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Emotional Intelligence and Personality Development of Urban Adolescents
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2020-08) Jyoti; Chandra Kala Singh
    Adolescence is a period of transition between playful childhood and responsible adulthood. It is a stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. Personality is an interesting and complex phenomenon; it expresses itself differently and underlies the differences among humans. Emotional intelligence is the ability of an individual to express emotions appropriately and the role of emotions is very crucial in individual‟s lives because they get to know the perception of themselves and others through emotions. This research examines assessment of emotional intelligence, personality and home environment. The study was conducted in city area of Jind and Bhiwani district of Haryana state. From district sample constituted of randomly selected 240 adolescents of 14-16 years. . Self prepared questionnaire was used to delineate personal and socio-economic variables. Emotional intelligence was assessed by Emotional intelligence scale (EIS) of Hyde et al. (2002); personality was assessed by Big Five Inventory by John and Srivastava (1999) and family environment was assessed using Family environment scale (FES) by Bhatia and Chadha (1993). Association revealed that family environment is strong predictors of emotional intelligence and mother‟s occupation, parental education and gender associates with personality during adolescents. Comparison revealed that Jind district, adolescents of 15-16 years and male adolescents were found better in emotional intelligence and personality than Bhiwani district, adolescents of 14-15 years and female adolescents respectively. Personality and emotional intelligence of adolescents was significantly correlated.
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    Menstrual distress and impact on academic performance among adolescent girl
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-07) Jyoti; Yadav, Poonam
    Adolescent girls‟ education is of critical importance for their future progress as citizens and their success in later life. The purpose of this study was to better understand the challenges girls face due to menstruation in the form of menstrual distress and its impact on academic performance and present recommendations to create a supportive school and home environment for adolescent girls in Haryana State. The study was conducted on 240 adolescent girls in the age group of 10-14years and 15-19 years belonging to rural and urban areas of Hisar district. Self-developed schedules were used to delineate personal, socio-personal variables and facilities at home and school in terms of MHM. Menstrual distress of adolescent girls was assessed by using Comprehensive Menstrual Distress Scale by Jain et al. 2017. Dependent variable for the present study was academic performance and measured by self –developed interview schedule. Frequency, percentages, mean, standard deviation, „Z‟ test, ANOVA and chi-square tests were used to analyse the data as per objectives. The study found that one-fourth of girls were exposed to high physical and socially imposed impurity and restriction distress, whereas, 17.5 % and 16.3% adolescent girls were highly distressed on aspects of psychological and positivity of womanhood respectively. Rural girls were more distressed than urban counterparts. Regarding facilities at school in terms of MHM, girls reported lack of proper disposal system for sanitary materials and lack of availability of changing rooms. Nearly half of respondents reported lack of open discussion from family on MHM issues. School facilities and home facilities were associated with menstrual distress. A significant difference in menstrual distress was observed among early and late adolescent girls. Girls attaining early menarche and having irregular periods were more distressed. Literate mothers, working mothers, size of family and father occupation were associated factors of low menstrual distress in this study. Present research has found that a substantial portion of girls‟ menstrual distress level impacting academic performance particularly in terms of school absenteeism seen among 57.1percent girls. The menstrual distress symptoms were significantly interfering with adolescent‟s classroom, examination, assignment extracurricular activities and relationship performance.