Role of Area of Residence, Sex and Parental Encouragement in Developing Self-concept of Adolescents

Present research is undertaken to find out the relation between role of area of residence, sex and parental encouragement in developing self-concept of adolescents. The total sample of 280 Ss. of which 140 Ss. were from urban area and 140 Ss. were from rural area. Male-Female ratio is 1:1. The age range of Ss was from 14 to 16 years. Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaun's Self-Concept Scale (SCS) and parental encouragement scale (PES) is developed by Sharma was used for data collection result were analyzed by applying three way ANOVA. The results show that Urban area adolescents significantly develop better-self concept where as rural area adolescents significantly develop poor self concept. Sex has no influence on Self-concept. High parental encouragement adolescents significantly develop better self concept where as low parental encouragement adolescents develop poor self concept