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S. Sasikala and S. Karunanidhi
University of Madras, Chennai.
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The present study made an attempt to develop and validate an inventory to
assess perception of parental expectations of adolescent students. Items for
this inventory were generated based on review of literature, focus group
discussions with parents and adolescents, personal interviews with parents,
consultation with experts in the field of parent child related issues, teachers
and Principals’ of schools. After item generation, content validity and inter item
reliability were established. An exploratory analysis was carried out using data
collected from 518 adolescent students studying in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard.
Four factors were extracted namely Academic expectations, Personal
expectations, Career expectations and Parental ambitions and 30 items were
retained based on their factor loadings (>.30). By using test-retest method
reliability was established and construct validity was established through factor
analysis
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