Page No 40-43
C. Ramaswamy and G. Venkatesh Kumar
University of Mysore, Mysore.
The present study assesses the adolescent problems among urban and rural
adolescents in and around Mysore city. A total of 631 adolescents of different
age groups from 11-20 years were randomly selected. They were administered
Problem checklist developed by Joshi and Pandey, which measures the problems
of adolescents in 11 areas – health and physical development (HPD), finance,
living conditions and employment (FLE), social and recreational activities (SRA),
courtship sex and marriage (CSM), social psychological relations (SPR), personal
psychological relations (PPR), moral and religion (MR), home and family (HF),
The future vocational and educational (FVE), Adjustment to school work (ASW)
and curriculum and teaching procedures (CTP). The data collection was done in
one setting and MANOVA was applied to see the differences in problem areas
between urban and rural adolescents along with the influence of gender. Results
revealed that rural adolescents were found to have higher levels of problems in
all the areas of problems mentioned. Gender-wise comparison revealed that
males had more problems in finance, living conditions and employment, social
and recreational activities, social psychological relations, personal psychological
relations, moral and religion, home and family, future vocational and educational,
curriculum and teaching procedure and in total scores than female adolescents.
Male adolescents of the rural areas had higher problems in areas -social and
recreational activities, moral and religion, vocational and educational future
compared to rest of the groups
.