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Impact of Gender and Social Support in Adjustment of Adolescents
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The period of adolescence is marked by storm and stress. Most of the adolescent behaviour is influenced by the family, teachers, peers and environmental conditions. Adolescence stage of our life is very important as it faces so many changes. All changes affect students ability to perform in their study. The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of gender and social support on adjustment of adolescent students. This study was conducted on 500 adolescents (250 boys & 250 girls) studying 11th and 12th standards from different college of Varanasi city. Data were collected by P.G.I Social Support Scale and Adjustment Inventory, Vyaktitva Parakh Prashnavali. Mean, S.D. and F-test was used for the analysis of data. The results reported that significant difference was found between boys and girls students. In other words, we can say that boys are significantly better adjusted than girls. Gender has significant impact on adjustment of adolescent. Result further shows no significant impact of social support on adjustment.
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Adjustment, Social Support, Gender, Adolescents.
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