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Family Income and Guidance Needs of Senior School Adolescents of Imphal District


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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, G.b. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, India
     

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The present study was undertaken to assess the guidence needs of senior secondary school adolescents of Imphal district, Manipur across their family income. For the present study, 30 schools were randomly drawn from a total of 60 schools situated in Imphal East and Imphal West. From the selected schools, 25 per cent of the total adolescents studying in its standard XI were randomly selected as respondents making a total of 651 respondents. The total sample consisted of 272 boys and 379 girls. Selfstructured performa and Guidance Needs Inventory developed by Grewal (1982) were used for the present study. Results revealed that respondents irrespective of their family income exhibited extreme need for guidence in physical, educational and vocational guidence. Least need was exhibited for psychological guidence. Respondents hailing from middle and high class families placed vocational guidence needs on top priority followed by their educational guidence needs. In contrast, among those from low class families, educational guidence needs were rated first and then vocational guidence needs. Interestingly, psychological guidence needs is the last preferred need among the respondents from all the categories. Family income had no significant influence on the guidence needs of respondents and the latter was found to be independent of family income.

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Guidance Needs, Adolescence, Family Income
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Authors

Laitonjam Valentina
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, G.b. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, India
Ritu Singh
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, G.b. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract


The present study was undertaken to assess the guidence needs of senior secondary school adolescents of Imphal district, Manipur across their family income. For the present study, 30 schools were randomly drawn from a total of 60 schools situated in Imphal East and Imphal West. From the selected schools, 25 per cent of the total adolescents studying in its standard XI were randomly selected as respondents making a total of 651 respondents. The total sample consisted of 272 boys and 379 girls. Selfstructured performa and Guidance Needs Inventory developed by Grewal (1982) were used for the present study. Results revealed that respondents irrespective of their family income exhibited extreme need for guidence in physical, educational and vocational guidence. Least need was exhibited for psychological guidence. Respondents hailing from middle and high class families placed vocational guidence needs on top priority followed by their educational guidence needs. In contrast, among those from low class families, educational guidence needs were rated first and then vocational guidence needs. Interestingly, psychological guidence needs is the last preferred need among the respondents from all the categories. Family income had no significant influence on the guidence needs of respondents and the latter was found to be independent of family income.

Keywords


Guidance Needs, Adolescence, Family Income

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