Friendship patterns as a correlate of need of guidance and counseling services among adolescents
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2021
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
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The present study entitled “Friendship patterns as a correlate of need of guidance and
counseling services among adolescents” was conducted to assess the provision status of
guidance and counseling services and the correlation between friendship patterns and the need
of guidance and counseling services among adolescents in private and government schools of
Ludhiana city. The study was conducted on 240 adolescents (120 government school
adolescents and 120 private school adolescents). Dimensions of Friendship Scale by Chandna
and Chadha (1986) was used to assess the friendship patterns among adolescents. Grewal
Guidance Needs Inventory (1997) and Psychological Counseling Needs Scale by Chouhan
and Arora (2009) were used to assess the guidance and counseling needs. A self structured
questionnaire was used to assess the provision status of guidance and counseling services to
adolescents. The results revealed that there was inadequacy of counselor in the government
schools. Female adolescents perceived significantly more social and psychological guidance
needs than males whereas males were more in need of educational and vocational guidance.
Government school adolescents perceived significantly high requirement for psychological
counseling needs as compared to private school adolescents. Significant gender differences
were found in the mean score distribution where males were seen more in need of
psychological counseling than females. Irrespective of the gender and type of school, results
of correlation analysis revealed that the adolescents who have better friendships are in lesser
need of guidance and counseling needs.
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Vanika (2021). Friendship patterns as a correlate of need of guidance and counseling services among adolescents (Unpublished M.Sc. thesis). Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.