A Comparative Study on Self-Concept of Adolescent Boys and Girls

The purpose of the present study was to compare the self-concept of adolescent boys and girls. For this research work, the incidental purposive sampling techniques will be used for the selection of the subjects. In all there will be 120 Adolescent of urban area ofAjmer city, Rajasthan, in which 60 boys and 60 girls were selected. Adolescent's age limit was 12 to 18 years old. The Self-concept Questionnaire developed by Kumar Saraswat was used. Results indicated that there is significant difference between overall self-concept of adolescents boys and girls. But when we compare the different dimension of self-concept, adolescents boys have better self-concept in physical, social, temperamental and moral self-concept as compared to adolescents girls. Whereas in educational and intellectual dimension both have awareness of their studies, career & educational activities and awareness of their intelligence to solve the problems come in daily life and take judgment according to it.