Family Environment and Psycho-social Problems among Adolescents
| dc.contributor.advisor | Balda, Shanti | |
| dc.contributor.author | Manju Bala | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-03T06:22:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-03T06:22:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study was conducted purposively in Hisar district of Haryana state. Two schools from rural Hisar and two school from Hisar city were selected at random having co-education senior secondary schools. Total sample constituted of 240 adolescents, 120 from rural area and 120 from urban area, representing both the sexes in equal number. Family environment was assessed by Family Environment Scale (FES) by Bhatia and Chadha (1993). Youth Problem Inventory (YPI) developed and standardized by Verma (2004) was used to assess the adolescents' psycho-social problems. Results revealed that majority of rural and urban adolescents perceived average level of cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, acceptance and caring attitude, independence, organization and control in their families. Findings also disclosed that urban adolescents perceived family environment more accepting and caring, and more independent as compared to rural adolescents. Urban adolescents perceived family environment as more relationship oriented. Rural adolescents perceived their family environment more organized and controlled, i.e., system maintained than urban adolescents. It was found that male adolescents perceived family environment as more expressive and more personal growth oriented as compared to female respondents. Results also revealed that female adolescents perceived family environment as more organized and controlling as compared to male adolescents making family environment as more system maintenance oriented. Results of the present study revealed that majority of adolescents from rural and urban area experienced average level of family, school, social, personal and overall problems. Rural adolescents experienced more family problems, school problems and overall problems as compared to urban adolescents. Results further revealed that female adolescents experienced more family problems, personal problems and overall problems as compared to male adolescents. Regression analysis revealed that family environment significant predictor of psychosocial problems among adolescents. Lastly, results indicated that family income, paternal education and exposure to media were significant predictors of psycho-social problems among adolescents. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810136669 | |
| dc.keywords | Family environment, adolescents, psycho-social, youth problems, rural & urban | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | CCSHAU | en_US |
| dc.sub | Human Development and Family Studies | |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Family Environment and Psycho-social Problems among Adolescents | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Family Environment and Psycho-social Problems among Adolescents | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |