Dimensions of attitude among adolescents
Loading...
Date
2019
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
CCSHAU
Abstract
Attitude, a broad term covering almost all-important fields of human knowledge, is especially
prominent in the field of education, psychology, sociology and politics. Adolescence is very important
stage in the process of development being a period of transition from childhood to maturity. Education
is the most important factor, which trains students towards social practices and discipline moreover
inculcates sense of citizenship and responsibility among adolescents, therefore the study was conducted
to examine the relationship of socio-personal variables, attitude of adolescents towards parents,
teachers, discipline, life and humanity, country and religion. The study was undertaken in Hisar district
of Haryana state in CCSHAU of Hisar city and Pullian Khurd village on 200 adolescents. The sample
represents equal number of boys and girls ranging in 16-18 years of age group comprising equal sample
size with regards to area of residence. Attitude scale by Sodhi (1984) was used to assess dimensions of
attitude among adolescents. The findings indicated that rural respondents perceived significantly higher
attitude on different dimensions of attitude than that of urban. The results further highlighted that
attitude of respondents towards country was the most important variables because it showed significant
correlation with three other variables namely; towards discipline, life and humanity in rural areas but in
urban areas the attitude of respondents towards country had interdependency with the attitude of
respondents towards parents and teachers and life and humanity. Results further revealed that
socioeconomic variables such as income, siblings, family type, parental education and occupation had
association with most of the dimensions of attitude of the respondents.
Description
Keywords
null