Influence of Home Environment on Personality Traits of Adolescents
Loading...
Date
2013
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The present study on influence of home environment on personality traits of
adolescents was conducted in the year 2012-13 in Dharwad taluk of Karnataka. The sample
for the study comprised 256 adolescents (128 boys and 128 girls) who were selected from 8th,
9th, 10th standard, PUC-I and PUC-II classes from urban and rural areas. Self-structured
questionnaire was used to collect background information of the subjects. The Big Five
Inventory developed by John et al. (1991) was used to assess the personality traits and Home
Environment Inventory developed by Mishra (1983) was used to assess the home
environment of the subjects. The results revealed significant difference between the urban
and rural adolescents in some of the personality traits such as agreeableness,
conscientiousness and emotional stability wherein the urban adolescents were better in
conscientiousness whereas the rural counterparts were better in agreeableness and emotional
stability. Further results on the influence of home environment on the personality traits of
adolescents indicated that almost all the components of home environment had significant
influence on the personality traits of adolescents except control and punishment. The
Protectiveness dimension had significant influence on agreeableness, emotional stability and
openness to experience while Conformity on extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness
and openness to experience, Social isolation on extroversion, agreeableness and
conscientiousness and Reward on agreeableness and conscientiousness and deprivation of
privileges on extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience and
Nurturance on conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience and
Rejection on all the personality traits and Permissiveness on extroversion dimensions of
personality. However, control and punishment dimensions had no significant influence on
any of the personality traits.
Description
Keywords
Human Development