Interests aspirations problems and emotional maturity of Urban teenage boys
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2004-07-05
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Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani
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Two hundred urban teenage boys of 15- 18 yrs old were randomly selected
from Parbhani town of Maharashtra slate. Out of them, 83 who belonged to
group-1 were Science students and the remaining (117) were students of A rts and
Commerce (group-11). The data pertaining to the study were collected by
personally interviewing them based on structured cum open-ended questionnaire
and also by administering Emotional Maturity Scale (Singh and Bhargava). Few
significant differences were noted in recreation, religious, academic, social and
household interests of group-1 and group-II teenage boys while such difference
was not recorded in their personal interests. Majority of them aspired take up
professional jobs, prospective life partners to be well educated, employed and
having good personality traits, parents to be responsible and their peers to have
good personality traits. Relatively a higher percentage of group II teenage hoys
encountered problem of coping with their physiological changes, and
interpersonal relationships with family members, financial crisis, housing,
compulsory household chores; related to college - improper facilities curriculum
teachers; problematic behaviour of peers as compared to their counterparts in
group-I. Irrespective of their groups considerably a higher percentage of the
teenage boys were assessed to be emotionally unstable. Significantly a higher
percentage of group-II teenage boys were rated as emotionally unstable as
compared to their counterparts teenage boys in group -I.
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