Parental relations and behavioral problems among early adolescents
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2007
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
Society provides norms of behavior for different stages of development; it also
provides norms of behavior for specific environments. Whose behavior is inconsistent with
the expectations of normal behavior, are regarded to have behavioral problems. To make
proper adjustment and also to make significant achievements in one’s span of life, it is
necessary to develop proper behavior patterns at school age. So the study was designed to
identify parental relations and behavioral problems among early adolescents (N=216),
studying in 8th, 9th and 10th standards. The sample was selected from Government, aided and
unaided private schools from Dharwad city, Karnataka state. To assess the behavioral
problems of adolescents, emotional problem scale (EPS) developed by Prout and Strohmea
(1985) was used and parent child relationship scale (PCRS) developed by Rao (1989) was
used to know the parent child relationship. To collect the background information of
adolescents, socio-economic status inventory developed by AICRP-CD (2002) and Aaron et
al (1969) was used. The data collected was subjected to chi-square and correlation test. The
results revealed that majority of the adolescents was found to have the normal behavior, but
15-20 per cent of adolescents were found to have difficult behavior. Around 7 per cent of
adolescents were observed in the problematic level. Behavioral problems were found more
among government school adolescents as compared to private and aided school adolescents.
However the results were found to be non-significant. There was significant association
between gender and behavioral problems among adolescents. Where in boys had more
externalizing problems and girls showed more of internalizing problems. There was no
significant association between type of the family and religion with behavioral problems of
early adolescents. There was also no significant relation between size of the family, education
and occupation of parents, family income, parent-child relationship and behavioral problems
among early adolescents.