Correlates of academic achievement among adolescents during COVID-19
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2023
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Punjab Agricultural University
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The purpose of this study was to explore the correlates of academic achievement among adolescents during covid-19 and to provide a better insight into the role as well contribution of parents’ educational aspirations and expectations, psychological well-being, and virtual school environment towards academic achievement of adolescents. The sample for the study comprised of 500 adolescents in the age group of 16-18 years studying in +1 and +2 classes in the Government Senior Secondary Schools of rural and urban areas of Ludhiana and Moga the study. Thus, the total sample comprised of 1000 respondents (500 adolescents and 500 parents).A self-structured personal sheet, Parents Educational Aspirations and Expectations (Jacob 2010), Psychological well-being scale (Sisodia and Chaudhary 2012) and SelfStructured Virtual School Environment scale was used to collect the relevant data. The results revealed that majority of the adolescents belonged to medium level across various levels of psychological well-being. More percentage of girls had better psychological well-being than boys. Adolescents of Ludhiana district had better psychological well-being than Moga. Most of the adolescents were in medium level of virtual school environment. Most of the parents’ of adolescents were in high level parental educational aspirations and parents of girls had high parental educational aspirations and expectations than boys. Significant correlation was observed between psychological well-being and academic achievement among adolescents.
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Mahal, Ritu (2023). Correlates of academic achievement among adolescents during COVID-19 (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation). Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.