International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Arti Kumari ¹, Ritu Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies Collage of Home Science, G.B.P.U.A. & T., Pantnagar, Uttrakhand, IN

Abstract

The present study was aimed to decide the effect the birth orders on adolescent's personality among adolescents. The sample for the present study consisted of students is selected from the nearest Schools and colleges of Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. This is selected from all the four groups in every 40 respondents according to parent's employment of G.B.P.U.A&T Pantnagar University. For measurement of adolescent's personality used Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Personality Scale by Vohra (1993). Analysis of data was done by using, mean and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The study revealed that Respondent showed a high significant difference in all the domains of adolescent's personality in the families except in maturity. The domains academic achievement, competition, creativity, enthusiasm, excitability, general ability, guilt proneness, individualism, innovation, maturity, mental health, morality, self-control, sensitivity, social sufficiency, social warmth and tension with birth order of class I and class II has high level of significant difference as compared to class III and class IV Whereas, adaptability, boldness and leadership among the number of siblings of class III and class IV have a high level of significant difference with respect to birth order. It is recognized by the result that the level of adolescent personality have been affected by the birth order.

Keywords

Adolescents', Birth Order, Adolescent Personality.

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Arti Kumari ¹, Ritu Singh ¹, Manisha Mehra ¹, Amit Kr. Mishra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies Collage of Home Science, G.B.P.U.A. & T., Pantnagar, Uttrakhand, IN

Abstract

The present study investigated parent-adolescent interaction in families from four different social classes (Class I, Class II, Class III, and Class IV) of G.B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Families falling under social class I of the university had parent(s) working as Professor and Associate Professor in the university; those falling under social class II had parent(s) working as Assistant Professor or equivalent and Doctor in the university; those falling under social class III had parent(s) working as Accountant, Supervisor, Lab Technician and Clerk in the university and those falling under social class IV had parent(s) working as Attendant, Driver, Peon, CRC laborer, Gardner and Sweeper. Forty adolescents were randomly selected as respondents from each social class of families making a total of 160 adolescent respondents for the present study.Parent-adolescent interaction was assessed through adolescents' perception on it using standardized PCR scale. In the present study it was seen that adolescents from social class I and social class II perceived their parents, both mothers and fathers to be significantly more protecting; demanding; symbolically punitive; symbolic and object reward giving than those from social class III and social class IV On the contrary, adolescents from social class III and social class IV reported their parents, both mothers and fathers to be significantly more rejecting, practicing object punishment, neglecting and indifferent than those belonging to social class I and social class II. Hence, higher the social class of a family, higher or better is the education and economic level of the parents and thereby significantly better is the parent-adolescent interaction.

Keywords

Demanding, Object Reward, Protecting, Symbolically Punishing.

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Arti Kumari ¹, Ritu Singh ¹, Manisha Mehra ¹, Amit Kr. Mishra ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Home Science, G.B.P.U.A.T., Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, IN

Abstract

The present study examined differences in the personality of adolescents across their number of siblings. The adolescents for the present study were drawn from four different social classes (Class I, Class II, Class III, & Class IV) of families working in G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Families falling under social class I of the university had parent(s) working as Professor and Associate Professor in the university; those falling under social class II had parent(s) working as Assistant Professor or equivalent and Doctor in the university; those falling under social class III had parent(s) working as Accountant, Supervisor, Lab Technician and Clerk in the university and those falling under social class IV had parent(s) working as Attendant, Driver, Peon, CRC laborer, Gardner and Sweeper. Forty adolescents were randomly selected as respondents from each social class of families making a total of 160 respondents for the present study. Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Personality Scale was administered to adolescents to assess their personality. The study revealed that be it any family social class, adolescents' personality differs significantly with the number of siblings they have. Adolescents with one or no sibling, irrespective of their family social class, were seen to have significantly higher academic achievement, leadership, enthusiasm, excitability, general ability, guilt proneness, individualism, innovation, maturity, mental health, morality, self control, self sufficiency, sensitivity, social warmth and tension in comparison adolescents having more siblings. Whereas, adolescents with two or more number of siblings exhibited significantly higher adaptability and competition than adolescents with one or no sibling.

Keywords

Adaptability, General Ability, Innovation, Self Sufficiency.

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