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- Relationship of Altruism and Empathy Among Rural and Urban Adolescents of Ludhiana District
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2020), Pagination: 46-51Abstract
The present study was carried out on 240 adolescents (120 rural & 120 urban) in the age group of 16-18 years from government schools of Ludhiana District to understand relationship of altruism and empathy among rural and urban adolescents. For data collection, socio-personal information sheet, Altruism Scale (Rai & Singh, 2004) and Empathy Scale (Dubey & Tandon, 2014) were used. The results revealed that rural adolescents were highly altruistic and empathetic as compared to urban adolescents. Large proportion of the rural and urban adolescents had high level of altruism and empathy. Rural adolescents had significantly better mean scores as compared to urban adolescents at average level as well as overall altruism and empathy. Significant and positive correlation existed between altruism and empathy among rural adolescents indicating higher was the altruistic attitude, more was the empathy in adolescents.Keywords
Adolescents, Altruism and Empathy.- Locale Differentials in Academic Readiness of Private School Children
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 11, No 4 (2020), Pagination: 365-370Abstract
Academic readiness plays an important role in early childhood period and it sets the basis for future development. It is a holistic approach of parents, children, and school towards appropriate development of child. Academic readiness is gaining attention as an important approach to merge the learning gap and improves the quality of achieving lifelong learning and full developmental potential among preschoolers. This study comprising 200 children (i.e., 100 rural & 100 urban) of class-I from randomly selected private schools of rural and urban area of Ludhiana district. Self-structured academic readiness checklist was undertaken to assess academic readiness. The results revealed that most of the rural and urban children had high level of skills in overall academic readiness. Locale wise differences depicted that urban children had better skills across various domains of academic readiness than rural children.Keywords
Academic Readiness, Per-reading Readiness, Per-writing Readiness, Per-arithmetic Readiness.- Relationship of Altruism with Empathy Among Adolescents: A Gender Study
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 12, No 1 (2021), Pagination: 91-95Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the gender differences in the relationship of altruism with empathy of adolescents. The present study was carried out on 240 adolescents (120 girls & 120 boys) in the age group of 16-18 years from Government Senior Secondary schools of Ludhiana District. For data collection, Socio-personal Information Sheet, Altruism Scale (Rai & Singh) and Empathy Scale (Dubey & Tandon) were used. The results revealed that majority of the adolescents had higher level of altruism. However, gender wise differences indicated that girls were found to be more altruistic and more empathetic as compared to boys. Statistically significant and positive correlation existed between altruism and empathy across both the genders.Keywords
Adolescents, Altruism, Empathy.- Social Development: An Important Aspect for Adolescence
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Rashmi Upreti
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Asha Chawla
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1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN
1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, PAU, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN