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Article Received: 30 October 2017 Article Accepted: 31 December 2017 Article Published: 26 February 2018
ABSTRACT
The investigation inspected destitution, separation and associate weight as connects of behavioral issues among teenagers in Gurukul Kangri
University. An aggregate number of 100 students were randomly chosen from different Departments in the University. The examination instrument
titled: Teenager Behavioral Questionnaire (TBQ) comprising of 18 things was regulated to the teenagers in the Faculty. Four research theories were
figured. The information was investigated utilizing recurrence tally and Chi-Square measurements. Results demonstrated that every one of the
theories tried were huge. This suggests neediness, separation and companion weight were corresponds of behavioral issues among adolescent in the
Faculty of Education, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, India.
Keywords: Psychology, Adolescents and Behaviors.
1. INTRODUCTION
Pre-adulthood period is particularly fundamental to the improvement of any person. The peculiarities of this period
make it exceptional from various parts of headway. It is a transitional period from pre-adulthood to adulthood; it
requires a situation stacked with friendship and appreciation to function admirably. In India today, various
youngsters are getting into issues just in light of how they were bolstered and what they were displayed to over the
traverse of growing up. Encountering youth in India rarely depends upon the sorts of homes and watchmen one has.
The money related status of the homes whether low or high may likely add to the positive or negative change of the
young people. The homes also, on account of revering, careful and enduring may contribute colossally to the right
progression of the youthful youngster.
The prosperity of each youthful begins from the home. The house being the main specialist of socialization needs
legitimate supporting for it to satisfy its commitment to the individuals. Teenagers advantage colossally when one
or the two guardians are exceptionally associated with their childhood. The demonstration of supporting the
youthful ones to immaturity organize is an awesome errand for each parent to satisfy. Childhood of the youths
begins from taking care of their physical needs in light of the different physical advancements they are
encountering. Aside from childhood, absence of warmth and sustain from the guardians may influence the
improvement of poise in youths. A situation portrayed by affection, understanding and great wellbeing is required
to advance the prosperity of adolescents.
According to Conger and Chao (1996), teenagers in separated from families are more probable than youths from in
place homes to have less cozy association with their folks. In some cases they likewise drop out of school in light of
absence of focus; they could turn out to be sexually dynamic at a prior age on the grounds that there may not be
legitimate observing of their conduct. Aside from this, they now and then take to medications and connect with
against social associates and this may prompt having lower confidence.
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According to Furstenberg et al. (2001), the family should be in place for young people to encounter the glow and
sustain of a cherishing family. Passionate and behavioral issues may originate from parental clash when separate,
and in addition from the detachment itself. In the view of Young et al. (1997), a smooth working family can offer
help and support to an immature amid times of pressure and emergencies. Teenagers from separated, single-parent
family have a tendency to do more terrible in a bad position with the school specialists more than do young people
from two guardians homes, maybe on the grounds that solitary guardians think that its hard to screen their
youngsters over their different obligations.
Teenager period is now and then alluded to as a time of pressure and tempest because of some organic changes they
do involvement in their bodies. In the event that the stressors are expanded by guardians' conjugal breakdown then
young people concerned might be focused on the more. As noted by Pelton and Forehand (2001), the family at that
point turns into a wellspring of worry because of separation. The two guardians have parts to play in the lives of
teenagers and these parts can't be overemphasized.
Cooney and Mortimer (1999) observed that separation might be a sort of diversion that disturbs the elements of
guardians to their kids. The nonappearance of father in homes may prompt forceful conduct and poor change. Amid
the young years, the father regularly accepts the essential accountability for teaching the male teenagers who in
some cases display more withdrawn and reprobate conduct.
According to Mcloyd (2000), the money related quality of a house is exacerbated by separate since the two
guardians are not any more together. The budgetary remain of the house is left being taken care of by the mother
whose money related quality will be unable to help the youngsters. Such moms are more troubled than their
partners in place homes. They frequently demonstrate bring down help, support and association with their kids.
Separation by and large has consequences for both genders of teenagers yet in various ways. Kelly (2000) insisted
that there are heaps of negative impacts of separation on guys than females.
Wolfinger (1998) found that adolescent males are inclined to drinking issues because of parental separation. Then
again, young ladies from single guardians will probably leave home after school. The two young ladies and young
men from separated from families have a tendency to be more discouraged, as per Simons (1999) than their same
matured associates from in place families.
Akinbola (2004) watched that guardians who are as one may endure neediness. It is where an individual can't
provide food satisfactorily for his or her essential needs of sustenance, apparel and haven. He can't meet social and
monetary commitments. Absence of profitable business, abilities, resources and confidence has restricted
possibilities propelling his or her welfare to the furthest reaches of his abilities. Because of this high rate of
neediness in the nation, most guardians think that its hard to give satisfactory nourishment, dress, protect or even
great training for their youngsters. Akinbola (2004) additionally avowed that young people who are denied of
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fundamental life necessities by neediness show animosity and poor social miens. They are inclined to savagery
because of absence of fundamental arrangements of good sustenance, sanctuary and human services.
This aggression has showed in the high rate of outfitted theft cases conferred by teenagers. Notwithstanding this
cultism, assault, sexual misuse and medication manhandle are basic among youths from poor homes. Destitution
can hurt kids' advancement through its effect on guardians' enthusiastic state and child rearing practices and on the
home condition they make. Poor lodging for guardians influence them to stress and the individuals who have lost
their activity stressed over their next supper and this makes them to feel an absence of control over their lives and in
the long run they may likely end up on edge, discouraged or crabby. What's more, they are probably going to extend
these negative emotions on their children.
Parent may turn out to be less friendly with and less receptive to their youthful youngsters. The youngsters thusly
have a tendency to end up discouraged themselves. As per Evans and English (2002) adolescent’s children
experience difficulty alongside peers and furthermore need fearlessness. As confirmed by the scientist, destitution,
family stress, and young people's social and enthusiastic issues exist among provincial, low-salary Nigerians.
Families under financial pressure are more averse to screen their kids' exercises and absence of checking is related
with poorer school execution and social change. Neediness has the inclination of sapping guardians' trust in their
capacity to influence their pre-adult youngsters' improvement. Evans et al. (2002) watched that absence of money
related assets can likewise make it harder for moms and fathers to help each other in child rearing. Numerous poor
guardians disregard their pre-adult's kids by not being associated with their exercises. They never knew the
whereabouts of their youngsters. What's more, these states of mind may influence the youths to be socially inept
and furthermore to open them to organic hazard factor, for example, AIDS.
As per Bolland (2003) a country is denied of competency and productiveness as it should have if her young people
achieve adulthood unfortunate, untalented, or distanced. Neediness is a monetary hardship and it has impacts on
young people from poor homes. This hardship might be as far as weakness, deficient house, vagrancy, introduction
to sicknesses and un-strong neighborhood. Every one of these hardships experienced by youths from poor homes
have suggestions on their practices. Such youths are perpetually engaged with burglary, grabbing, prostitutions,
and cultism et cetera. The psychological consequence of living in neediness makes one to look down on himself;
they are defenseless against any behavioral mental issues.
Peer pressure is another variable that influences the conduct of the youths. Peer pressure can be both negative and
positive. The researcher watched that the negative part of associate pres-sure any doubt endeavors more than the
positive angle. Youths have a place with one companion gathering or alternate as a wellspring of character and
social help. They adjust to the thoughts, convictions and judgment of the associate gathering and they invest
significantly more energy, with their companions than guardians. As per Conger and Chao (1996), teenagers invest
more energy with peers on account of low confidence, and inside weight which makes youths helpless to peer
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weight. The creators trust that teenagers who consider themselves to be unintelligent, disagreeable and ugly are
more powerless against peer weight in light of the fact that their yearn for a feeling of acknowledgment and
endorsement constrain them to look for such things through congruity. Roediger (1996) is of the feeling that the
impact of associate gathering on behavioral advancement of youths can be inspected by how they invest their
free-energy.
Teenagers go through much vitality with peers and get less adult supervision and control. They endeavor to keep up
a key separation from close supervision by gatekeepers. They end up being more aware of the characteristics and
direct of their partner gathering. Besides, this traps them to some behavioral issues which are unfriendly to social in
nature, for instance, thievery, cultism, prostitution and solution misuse. To feel had a place and be a bit of their
social events, youngsters sometimes oblige as a general rule in perspective of the favorable position they decide in
joining their sidekicks. A part of the points of interest may be cash related favorable circumstances, hailing and
affirmation.
2. HYPOTHESIS
1. Poverty is not significantly related to behavioral problems of adolescents.
2. Single parenting is not significantly related to behavioral problems of adolescents.
3. Broken home is a not significantly related to behavioral problem among adolescents.
4. Peer Pressure is not significantly related to behavioral problems among adolescents.
3. METHODS
Population: The population for this study is all students in the various faculty of Gurukul Kangri University,
Haridwar, India. One hundred (100) students were randomly sampled from all the departments and levels.
Research Instrument: The information for the investigation was created through "Adolescent Behavioral Problem
Questionnaire" developed by the researcher. The questionnaire contains 18 items and is separated into 4 segments.
Segment-1 contains 6 items, Segment-2 contains 2 items, Segment-3 contains 5 items and Segment 4 comprises 5
items which are proposed to discover the reason for behavioral issues among teenagers. The reaction design
depends on agree and disagree.
Statistical Tool: Chi-Square was used to test the hypotheses. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of
significance.
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4. DISCUSSION
The outcome in Table 1 demonstrates that there is noteworthy connection deliver amongst destitution and
teenagers’ behavioral issues. Variables like deficient bolstering, absence of asylum, yearning and poor training
urge teenagers to get out of hand. The result is significant because the Chi-square calculated is greater than the table
value of 3.841. This finding concurs with Akinbola (2004) that adolescents denied of essential necessities of life by
destitution show hostility and poor social auras.
The outcome in Table 2 demonstrates that there is noteworthy connection between single child rearing and
teenagers' behavioral issues. Elements like the nonappearance of a father or mother at home, money related
impairing of the father or mother and exchange of animosity impact offspring of single guardians to make trouble.
This concurs with Furstenberg et al. (2001) that family should be in place for adolescents to encounter the glow and
sustain of an adoring family. The result is significant because chi-square calculated is greater than the table value.
The hypothesis is, therefore, not accepted.
Table 3 result demonstrates that there is a huge connection between broken home and youths' behavioral issues.
This concurs with Pelton and Forehand (2001) that the family turns into a wellspring of worry because of
separation. The result is significant. Therefore, the hypothesis is not accepted.
The outcome in Table 4 demonstrates that there is a huge connection between peer weight and teenagers' behavioral
issues. This concurs with Conger and Chao (1996) that youths add additional time with peers in view of low
confidence and inward weight, which makes young people defenseless to peer weight. The result is significant.
Therefore, the hypothesis is not accepted.
5. RECOMMENDATION
The findings of this investigation demonstrate that neediness, separate, single child rearing and companion weight
are for the most part in charge of different behavioral issues of young people. It is subsequently imperative to
prescribe the accompanying:
Parents should bring forth youngsters they can enough provide food for.
The correspondence line amongst guardians and juvenile kids ought to be kept open and viable.
Parents ought to urge their kids to put stock in them-selves and have high self-assurance.
Parents should demonstrate enthusiasm for the exercises that their kids are occupied with.
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