Sangwan, SheelaChopra, Rupika2018-10-262018-10-262018http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810082214The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state on adolescents studying in 10th, 11th and 12th classes including boys and girls. To draw the sample, two villages namely Arya Nagar and Behbalpur were randomly selected to represent the rural sample and for urban sample, Government senior secondary schools of Patel Nagar and Satrod from Hisar city were randomly selected. The final sample included 500 adolescents i.e., 250 adolescents form urban area and 250 adolescents from rural area. The instruments used for data collection were the Kovacs’ Children Depression Inventory (2003), Rigby and Slee’ Peer – Relationship Questionnaire (1993), Sarson’ Social – Support Questionnaire (1987), Rosenberg’s Self – Esteem Scale (1989) and Family Relationship Inventory (1987). Independent sample t – test, Z – test, one – way ANOVA, correlation and paired ‘t’ test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that majority of the respondents were males and female adolescents were good academic achievers. More than half of adolescents’ families were nuclear in structure and medium sized from low family income group. Results for depression showed that female and urban adolescents reported higher negative mood, interpersonal problems, feelings of ineffectiveness, anhedonia, negative self – esteem and overall depression. Bullying and victimization behavior was slightly more in males residing in urban area whereas female adolescents from rural area reported more pro – social skills. Male adolescents from rural area perceived more social – support. Social – support quantity (SSQN) had negative correlation with depression and its all aspects. Female adolescents had good self – esteem and self – esteem was negatively significantly correlated with all aspects of depression and overall depression. Regarding the results for family relationship, study highlighted that urban adolescents perceived more parental acceptance whereas, rural adolescents perceived more parental concentration. Male adolescents perceived paternal avoidance more than female adolescents. Parental acceptance and concentration was negatively significantly correlated, whereas parental avoidance was positively significantly correlated with depression. Results envisages the significant differences in negative mood, interpersonal problems, feelings of ineffectiveness, anhedonia, negative self – esteem and overall depression among adolescents of experimental group after execution of intervention programme. Depression was significantly reduced in adolescents residing in rural as well as urban area at post – testing stage, thus showing the impact of intervention programme applied on them.ennullThesis