INFLUENCE OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND SOCIAL CLIMATE ON ADOLESCENT'S ADJUSTMENT
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21-01-04
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE
Abstract
The study on Influence of Family Functioning and Social climate on
Adolescent's Adjustment, conducted on a sample of 240 Pre-University students of Arts
faculty (16-18 years), selected from 6 co-educational colleges of Dharwad taluk of
Karnataka state, revealed that family functioning was significantly related to the
adjustment of adolescents. Social activities of boys and parental support was
significantly more than girls.
The family functioning and its dimensions viz., family cohesion,
communication, enmeshment and conflict, of both 1 and 11 year boys and girls fell in the
normal range. The family conflict had an adverse effect on the adolescent's adjustment.
The family conflict was significantly lesser in joint families compared to nuclear families.
With regard to social climate, most of the adolescents were dis-satisfied
regarding their aspiration for friendship. A higher percentage of adolescents had
friendship with opposite gender, choose friends by personal characteristics, followed
by academic standards. The parents also insisted such traits in selection of friends.
Sociometric status was significantly related to mother's education, but was
negatively related to sibling size. While the choice of gender of friends was significantly
related to sigling size indicating about 25 percent of both boys and girls had poor
adjustment. Adolescents from joint families had unsatisfactory adjustment compared
to the adolescents from nuclear families. Cohesion and enmeshment were negatively
related to communication and conflict. Adolescents who lacked parental support aspired
for more friends. But higher parental support suppressed adolescent's adjustment
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