Asian Journal of Home Science

Savita Rathour ¹, Tejpreet K. Kang ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development, College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, LUDHIANA (PUNJAB), IN

Abstract

Values are listed as motivational factors that determine an individual's lifestyle, while the conflict is part of human life which is inevitable to avoid. Value-conflicts lie at the very ischolar_main of an individual's identity, they are extremely difficult to resolve and descalation of the conflicts become an essential need for the welfare of mankind because they hold the seed of personality disorganization and inversely related to adjustment. Conflict regarding intrapersonal and interpersonal value preference starts occurring from late childhood, while it becomes more prominent among adolescents as they are more prone to various types of conflict. The present research has made an attempt to study value preferences and value-conflict among college students of Ludhiana district. The sample included 200 rural and 200 urban college students (400), in age range of 18-20 years. Value-conflict scale developed by Bharadwaj (2001) was used to measure value-conflict among adolescents. Result revealed that there was no significant difference in overall value conflict among rural and urban adolescents while, dimension wise there was significant difference in evasion vs fortitude, dependence vs self reliance and pragmatism vs idealism. On the basis of mean, in most of the dimensions respondents were in value conflict. Rural respondents had value conflict with a tendency towards evasion, dependence, selfishness and pragmatism while, urban respondents had value conflict with a tendency towards fortitude, self reliance, selfishness and fear. In hate vs love both rural and urban respondents had love value probability, in fear vs assertion rural respondents had fear value probability and in pragmatism and idealism urban respondents had pragmatism value probability.

Keywords

Conflict, Values, Adolescents.

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Vandana Kumari ¹, Tejpreet K. Kang ², Rekha Kumari ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, Government Girls P.G. College, Ghazipur (U.P), IN
2 Department of Human Development, College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab), IN
3 ICMR, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute, Agamkuan, Patna (Bihar), IN

Abstract

The present study entitled "gender difference in aggressive behaviour of adolescents" was undertaken in the Ludhiana district of Punjab. The study was designed to compare aggressive behaviour of adolescent boys and girls across low and middle socio-economic strata. The sample comprised of 400 adolescents (200 boys and 200 girls) of the age group 13-17 years equally distributed over two different socio-economic strata i.e. low and middle (200 LSES and 200 MSES). Socio-economic status scale by Bharadwaj and Buss-Durkee aggression scale by Sultania, was used in this research study. Gender differentials revealed that adolescent boys were more assaultive, negative and verbally aggressive than adolescent girls, while girls were more suspicious than boys. Low socio-economic status boys outnumbered girls in expression of negative behaviour and verbal aggression. In middle socio-economic status boys are more assaultive than girls while girls are more irritative and suspicious than boys. Mean difference showed boys exceed girls in showing assaultive behaviour, negativism and expression of verbal aggressive while girls were more suspicious than boys. Two way interaction involving socioeconomic status and gender in different dimensions of aggression showed boys with low socioeconomic status had nearly same intensity of negativism as girls with middle socio-economic status followed by boys with middle socio-economic status. The lowest level of negativism was found in girls with low socio-economic status.

Keywords

Aggressive Behaviour, Adolscents, Gender.

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