Personal Values and Coping among Adolescents

Adolescent or school going age is vulnerable to changes in the surrounding and introjections of the authority time-to-time. The present study was conducted to find out relationship between values the student has introjected and the coping they have adopted to handle the academic and social problems faced by them. For this purpose, normative survey research design was utilized with the purposive sample of 150 students belonging to 11^th standard was taken from a secondary school located in Jalandhar. Values of the students were assessed using personal value scale (Varma & Pawar, 2013); and coping was assessed using brief COPE (Carver, 1997). These questionnaires were administered in small groups in school after obtaining permission from concerned administrative authority of the school and consent of the participating volunteers. The obtained data were analyzed using appropriate parametric statistics and the interpretations were made in light of how personal values influence coping among higher secondary students. The study did not reveal significant differences in personal values and coping among adolescents on the basis of their type of family except for love dimension of personal values and use of instrumental support dimension of coping. However, the study revealed logically significant relationships between dimensions of personal values and that of coping.