Page No 187-191 R. Vatsala Mirnaalini and S. Gayatridevi
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
Researches in Quality of Life and internalizing problems has increased in the recent
past and many evident based researches share the prevalence of low quality of life
among learning disabled adolescents. Low quality of life is majorly due to internalizing
problems among autistic adolescents (Andersen et al., 2023). The objective of this
study is to identify gender differences in quality of life in internalizing problems among
learning disabled adolescents. Sixty six learning disabled adolescents in the age
range of 11 to 15 years were selected through purposive sampling and administered by
The Youth Disability Screener (YDS) and the data was analyzed by Independent Sample
t test. The results showed that there was no significant mean difference between
adolescent boys and girls in quality of life among learning disabled adolescents. Many
studies stressed that internalizing problems were more in girls rather than boys but
this study proves that there was no significant mean difference between boys and
girls. It may be due to equal importance given to the children by their parents or social
media or education. The study recommends the application of intervention strategies
to improve quality of life and since there is homogeneity in gender, the intervention
might be effective