Assessment of adolescent problems in rural and urban areas

Ramaswamy, C. and Venkatesh Kumar, G. (2012) Assessment of adolescent problems in rural and urban areas. Journal of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 38 (1). pp. 40-43. ISSN 0019-4247

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Abstract

The present study assesses the adolescent problems among urban and rural adolescents in and around Mysore city. A total of 631 adolescents of different age groups from 11-20 years were randomly selected. They were administered Problem checklist developed by Joshi and Pandey, which measures the problems of adolescents in 11 areas - health and physical development (HPD), finance, living conditions and employment (FLE), social and recreational activities (SRA), courtship sex and marriage (CSM), social psychological relations (SPR), personal psychological relations (PPR), moral and religion (MR), home and family (HF), The future vocational and educational (FVE), Adjustment to school work (ASW) and curriculum and teaching procedures (CTP). The data collection was done in one setting and MANOVA was applied to see the differences in problem areas between urban and rural adolescents along with the influence of gender. Results revealed that rural adolescents were found to have higher levels of problems in all the areas of problems mentioned. Gender-wise comparison revealed that males had more problems in finance, living conditions and employment, social and recreational activities, social psychological relations, personal psychological relations, moral and religion, home and family, future vocational and educational, curriculum and teaching procedure and in total scores than female adolescents. Male adolescents of the rural areas had higher problems in areas -social and recreational activities, moral and religion, vocational and educational future compared to rest of the groups.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: A Arts and Humanities > Psychology
Divisions: Department of > Psychology
Depositing User: C Swapna Library Assistant
Date Deposited: 31 Aug 2019 09:28
Last Modified: 31 Aug 2019 09:28
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/7457

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