Page No 199-205
Jeny Rapheal Varghese Paul K
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Prajyoti Nikethan College, Pudukkad
This study investigates the role played by home environment of adolescents in their
psychological well-being, anxiety and stress. A sample of 152 students was selected
from five schools of Thrissur district of Kerala State. Four psychological scales namely
Home Environment Inventory, Psychological well-being scale, IPAT anxiety scale, and
Students Stress Scale (SSS) were administered to collect data. Statistical analysis
was carried out with the help of SPSS version 20. The complete correlation matrix
revealed significant linear relationship between variables of home environment and
stress, anxiety, psychological well-being of the selected sample. MANOVA analysis
highlighted significant difference between the participants belonging to low, average
and high levels of home environment variables respectively in their psychological wellbeing, stress and anxiety. Multiple regression was performed to estimate the predictive
power of different groups of independent variables classified according to their perceived
effect on Home Environment was also highly significant, which reiterates the claim that
home environments of adolescents contain causal pathological elements that have the
potentiality to incur direct consequences on their mental well-being.
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