Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Pinki Ninaniya ¹, Sangwati Santosh ², Reena ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, COHS, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, COHS, CCS Haiyana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Modernization is the process of social transition, use of new technology, tools, adoption of new values and practices in organizations are all aspects of change and modernization. Adolescence is very important stage in the process of development as adolescent face internal crises because of cognitive social and biological changes. The present study was carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. The sample consisted 100 adolescents from rural and lOO trom urban between the age group of 16-17 years (both boys&girls). Comprehensive Modernization Inventory developed by Ahluwalia and Kalia (1998) was used to assess attitude of adolescents towards modernization. Results observed that girls had more positive attitude in all the components of modernization than their counterparts except politics where boys possessing higher percentage as compare to girls. Further mean scores indicated that significant difference were obtained in education, F-C relationship, status of women and as well as politics. Further girls respondents had more positive attitude towards education, P-C relationship as well as status of women as compared to boys.

Keywords

Modernization, Education, P-C Relationship, Attitude, Students.

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Reena ¹, Bimla Dhanda ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, I. C. College of Home Sciences, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The study was conducted in five cultural zones of Haryana state. For the rural sample 400 widow elderly women of age group 60-75 years were selected. Quality of life scale developed by World Health Organization (1997) was accessed to quality of life of widow elderly women. The questionnaire short form-36 health survey by Mchorney (1993) was used to assess the health status of widow elderly women. Clearly shows that relationship between aspects of perceived health status and quality of life among widow elderly women. Physical aspects of quality of life was positively significantly correlated with vitality (r =0.13**, p<0.01), body pain (r =0.39**, p<0.01), physical role functioning (r= 0.23**, p<0.01) , mental health ((r =0.10*, p<0.01) negatively significantly correlated with general health perception (r = -0.17**, p<0.01) and emotional role functioning (r = - 0.28**, p<0.01). Psychological aspects of quality of life was positively significantly correlated with physical functioning (r =0.13**, p<0.01) and body pain (r =0.10*, p<0.05). Another aspects social relationship of quality of life was negatively significantly correlated with physical functioning (r = -0.18**, p<0.01), body pain (r = -0.12**, p<0.01) and social role functioning (r = -0.11**, p<0.01), Physical role functioning, Emotional role function was negatively correlated with (r = 0.28**, p<0.01). Further aspects of environment was positively significantly correlated with vitality (r = 0.09*, p<0.05), Physical Functioning (r = 0.46**, p<0.01), body pain (r = 0.14**, p<0.01), General health perception (r = 0.30**, p<0.01) and physical role functioning (r = - 0.09*, p<0.05).

Keywords

Quality Of Life, Perceived Health, Widow Elderly Women and Cultural Zones.

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