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Perception of Adolescents about their Family Environment:A Comparative Study


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1 Department ofHuman Development and Family Studies, COHS CCS Haryana Agrieultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
2 Government College for Women Seetor 14, Punehkula, Haryana, India
     

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Family is the most important institute in whole society where a person related by blood with each other and this is the place of security, promise and comfort and with the help of marriage they live together. The present study was carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. For the study 200 adolescents i.e 100 trom rural and 100 trom urban between the age group of 16-18 years were selected. Family Environment Scale developed by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) was used to assess home environment of the adolescents. Results revealed that significant differences were noted between cohesion, acceptance and caring and control aspects of family environment and living area of respondents. Results further revealed that urban respondents had better quality of family environment, as they were showing higher percentages as compare to rural respondents on all the aspects except active recreational orientation and conflict, who had showing poor quality of family environment.

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Adolescents, Family Environment, Rural, Urban.
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Authors

Pinki Ninaniya
Department ofHuman Development and Family Studies, COHS CCS Haryana Agrieultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
Santosh Sangwan
Department ofHuman Development and Family Studies, COHS CCS Haryana Agrieultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India
Anju Manocha
Government College for Women Seetor 14, Punehkula, Haryana, India

Abstract


Family is the most important institute in whole society where a person related by blood with each other and this is the place of security, promise and comfort and with the help of marriage they live together. The present study was carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. For the study 200 adolescents i.e 100 trom rural and 100 trom urban between the age group of 16-18 years were selected. Family Environment Scale developed by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) was used to assess home environment of the adolescents. Results revealed that significant differences were noted between cohesion, acceptance and caring and control aspects of family environment and living area of respondents. Results further revealed that urban respondents had better quality of family environment, as they were showing higher percentages as compare to rural respondents on all the aspects except active recreational orientation and conflict, who had showing poor quality of family environment.

Keywords


Adolescents, Family Environment, Rural, Urban.

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