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A Study of Acceptance-Rejection by Parents in Relation to Adjustment of Adolescents


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A child needs a physical, social, and emotional environment immediately after his birth. He is an active or inactive member of many groups and plays a complicated role in all of them. Family relationships are always responsible for shaping an individual's well-being for better and worse throughout life (Merz, Consedine, Schulze, & Schuengel, 2009). The present study is devoted to explore and describe the acceptance-rejection by parents in relation to the adjustment of adolescents. For this purpose, a descriptive cum exploratory research design has been adopted in the present investigation. A sample of 100 students (50 boys + 50 girls) of class XIth and XIIth from a CBSE school of Haryana state was collected for the study. The data was collected with the help of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) and Indian adaptation of Bell's Adjustment Inventory. The present study revealed that parental acceptance and rejection play an important role in the behavior of a child. Achild getting accepted by his or her parents is more likely to be confident, as compared to a child who is getting rejection and facing negligence from his or her parents. The basic concern of the study is to investigate the parental acceptance-rejection of adolescents in relation to their adjustment, academic stress and self-concept level. If psychologists need to design the most appropriate interventions and developmental activities, they must know the concerns and needs of the population they serve

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acceptance, rejection, adjustment, adolescents
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Kadambini Sharma
Desh Bhagat University, Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, India

Abstract


A child needs a physical, social, and emotional environment immediately after his birth. He is an active or inactive member of many groups and plays a complicated role in all of them. Family relationships are always responsible for shaping an individual's well-being for better and worse throughout life (Merz, Consedine, Schulze, & Schuengel, 2009). The present study is devoted to explore and describe the acceptance-rejection by parents in relation to the adjustment of adolescents. For this purpose, a descriptive cum exploratory research design has been adopted in the present investigation. A sample of 100 students (50 boys + 50 girls) of class XIth and XIIth from a CBSE school of Haryana state was collected for the study. The data was collected with the help of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) and Indian adaptation of Bell's Adjustment Inventory. The present study revealed that parental acceptance and rejection play an important role in the behavior of a child. Achild getting accepted by his or her parents is more likely to be confident, as compared to a child who is getting rejection and facing negligence from his or her parents. The basic concern of the study is to investigate the parental acceptance-rejection of adolescents in relation to their adjustment, academic stress and self-concept level. If psychologists need to design the most appropriate interventions and developmental activities, they must know the concerns and needs of the population they serve

Keywords


acceptance, rejection, adjustment, adolescents

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