tailieunhanh - Family environment as perceived by youth: Gender base

The family is the basic unit of a society to attribute with biological functions. It is the institution responsible for maintaining and building relationships among family members as well as with the community. The present study has carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. For the study 200 adolescent . 100 male and 100 female were taken between the age group of 16-18 years. Family Environment Scale developed by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) was used to assess home environment of the adolescent. Results of the study revealed that significant differences were noted between cohesion, acceptance, caring and control aspects of family environment. Results further revealed that girls had more cohesion and control environment as compare to boys whereas boys received more acceptance and caring from their family as compare to their counterparts. | 2019 8 4 900-905 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 04 2019 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Family Environment as Perceived by Youth Gender Base Pinki Ninaniya Santosh Sangwan and Shanti Balda Department of Human Development and Family Studies CCS Haryana Agriculture University Hisar Haryana India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Adolescent Family Environment Behavior Boys Girls Article Info Accepted 10 March 2019 Available Online 10 April 2019 The family is the basic unit of a society to attribute with biological functions. It is the institution responsible for maintaining and building relationships among family members as well as with the community. The present study has carried out in Hisar district of Haryana state. For the study 200 adolescent . 100 male and 100 female were taken between the age group of 16-18 years. Family Environment Scale developed by Bhatia and Chadha 1993 was used to assess home environment of the adolescent. Results of the study revealed that significant differences were noted between cohesion acceptance caring and control aspects of family environment. Results further revealed that girls had more cohesion and control environment as compare to boys whereas boys received more acceptance and caring from their family as compare to their counterparts. Introduction Family is an enduring association of parent and off springs whose primary function are the socialization of the child and satisfaction of the members. Family plays an important role during adolescence. It is a primary group which requires people who are intimate and have frequent face-to face contact with one another have norms in common and share mutually enduring and extensive influences. Family cohesion . the emotional bonding among family members and the feeling of closeness is .