Effect of modernization on the personal values of adolescents
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2018-06
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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Values are ideas about desirable states of affairs shared by members of a group or culture. They guide our behavior, acts and right path of self-realization and selfdevelopment. As the values gone through an evolution over a period, they play a crucial role in determining human behavior and social relationships as well as maintaining and regulating social structure and interactions. Personal values evolve from circumstances with the external world and can change over time as result of modernization. Due to modern technology, modernization creates the change in traditions and values. Majority of behavioral scientists have come to recognize that modernization is essentially a process of value change. The adolescent age groups are the susceptible group to acquire the changes rapidly when compared to the other age groups. The present study has been carried out in two different Universities namely TNAU and GBPUA&T. Total sample for the study consisted of 240 adolescents in the age range of 18 to 20 Years belonging to TNAU and GBPUA&T. The samples collected from two colleges of TNAU and two colleges of GBPUA&T. The sample was evenly distributed over to sex’s i.e. 60 boys and 60 girls from each University. The self-structured background information questionnaire was used to collect the basic information; Personal value questionnaire (Sherry and Verma, 2010) was used to assess the personal values and Comprehensive Modernization Inventory (Ahluwalia and Kalia, 2010) was used to assess the modernization of the adolescents. The boys from TNAU were found significantly low in religious value, Social value, economic value and hedonistic value when compared to the girls. The correlation between the Modernization inventory and Personal value questionnaire gives the effect of modernization on the personal values of adolescents. At the same time, the regression analysis showed level of effect. However, on contrary, the girls were found significantly low in health value and medium in all the different aspects of personal values when compared to the girls of GBPUA&T. The boys of GBPUA&T found giving more respect to the status of women when compared to the boys of TNAU. similarly, there is a significant difference in the dimensions of politics, the status of women and marriage were found in the main comparison of girls of both the university. On overall comparison the TNAU adolescents where found better in education, parent-child relationship, politics, and marriage. Whereas, the GBPUA&T adolescents were found very good in religion, parent-child relationship and education.
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