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Friday, October 01, 2010

ANXIETY AMONG ADOLESCENT OF CO-EDUCATION AND UNI-SEX SCHOOL IN


ANXIETY AMONG ADOLESCENT OF CO-EDUCATION AND UNI-SEX SCHOOL IN                                            
                                                RELATION TO SOCIAL MATURITY
                              Baltinder Kaur(lecturer) BCM college of Education,Ludhiana
Abstract
The present study was undertaken to see the effect of social maturity on anxiety of adolescents of co-education and unisex school for this investigation this study was conducted and descriptive and survey method was used by the investor for this study. The present study will be conducted on the basis of convenient sampling technique. Sample of 200 students (100 boys and 100 girls of +1 and +2 class) will be selected for present study Rao’s social maturity scale and Sinha’s comprehensive anxiety test both are used by the investigator to collect the data for this study. From this study the investigator concluded that the adolescents girls of unisex school is significantly higher than that girls and boys of co-education school in term of anxiety and social maturity and the adolescent of unisex and co-educational school have no significant relationship in relation to anxiety and social maturity with in each other

Keywords – anxiety, social maturity, unisex and co-education school.
Introduction :-
                Environment plays a very important role in the personality development of the child. The type of environment like social, emotional, home, school environment determines the development of person and if this environment is dull and boring than the behavior of individual is likely to be shaped in an unhealthy way. Some of early experiences leave indelible impression on the minds of children which in term help the individual to live a socially mature life which results life without frustration and depression above all anxiety.     
Anxiety :-
Anxiety is a term used to describe uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings of an individual experiences, when he is in stressful or fearful situations.
                Anxiety is considered as a block to an activity. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension caused by insecurity and tension.
Social maturity :-
                The word ‘Social Maturity’ is comprised of two words, social and maturity. Thus social maturity refers to attain maturity in social relationship that is to establish good relation with family, friend, neighbours and all other persons living in our society when a person learns to attend to not only his or her need but to the needs of another person then he is considered as socially mature or when a person having quality of friendliness, adjustable not stiff or had fitted on liking the society of other people is socially mature.
 Objectives:-
  1. To study the Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents, adolescent boys and girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school.
  2. To study the Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school separately.
  3. To study the relationship of Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents, adolescents boys and girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school.
  4. To study the relationship of Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents, of Co-education and Uni-sex school separately.  
Hypotheses :-
1.        There exists no significant difference in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents. Adolescent boys and girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school. 
2.        There exists no significant difference in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent of Co-education and Uni-sex school separately.
3.        There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents, adolescent boys and girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school.
  1. There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent of and Co-education and Uni-sex school separately.
METHODOLOGY:- TOOL USED:
In the present study the following tools are employed to collect the data.
  1. Rao’s Social Maturity Scale by Nalini Rao, Ph.d. Retired Professor, Department of Education Bangalore University, Bangalore.
  2. Sinha’s Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT) by APK Sinha Retd. Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University Raipur and LNK Sinha Retd. Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Patna University, Patna.
Statistical techniques  used :-
                Mean, median, mode, SD and t-ratio will be used to check the normality of the data and to find the correlation between the variables, Pearson’s coefficient of correlation will be used and descriptive amd survey method was used for this study by the investigator. 
Sample: -
                The present study will be conducted on the basis of convenient sampling technique. Sample of 200 students (100 boys and 100 girls of +1 and +2 class) will be selected for present study. 
 ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA:-
                                                        Table-1
Significance mean difference in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents. Adolescent boys and girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school. 

                      Variables
                        t-ratios
Significance mean difference in Anxiety of adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school
                          1.52ns
Significance mean difference in Anxiety of adolescent boys& girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school
                 Boys        0.14ns
Girls
2.37*
Significance mean difference in Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school
                           2.35*
Significance mean difference in Social Maturity of adolescent boys & girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school
           Boys                   1.70ns
Girls
1.61 ns

 ns- not significant at 0.05 level
*significant at 0.05 level
The table -1 indicates that, “There exists no significant difference in Anxiety of adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school. There exists no significant difference in Anxiety of adolescent boys of Co-education and Uni-sex school. There exists no significant difference in Anxiety of adolescent girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school. There exists no significant difference in Social Maturity of adolescents of Uni-sex and Co-education school. There exists no significant difference in Social Maturity of adolescent girls of Uni-sex and Co-education school.  There exists no significant difference in Social Maturity of adolescent boys of Uni-sex and Co-education school.”  
                                                       Table-2
Significance mean difference in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent of Co-education and Uni-sex school separately.

                   Variable
                          t- ratios
Significance mean difference in Anxiety of adolescents of Co-education & Uni-sex school
    Co-education school
        1.69 ns                
        Unisex School    
         4.61*     
Significance mean difference in Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education & uni-sex school
          0.14ns              
         0.05*           

ns- not significant at 0.05 level
*significant at 0.05 level
The table-3 indicates that, “There exists no significant difference in Anxiety of adolescents of Co-education school. There exists no significant difference in Anxiety of adolescents of Uni-sex school. There exists no significant difference in Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education school.  There exists no significant difference in Social Maturity of adolescents of Uni-sex school.
                                                      Table-3
 Significance of relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents, adolescent boys and girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school.

                      Variables
                        r-values
Significance relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school
                        
                         0.006ns
Significance relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent boys of Co-education and Uni-sex school
                      
                          0.028ns
Significance relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school
                         
                         -0.023ns

ns- not significant at 0.05 level
 The table-2 indicates that , “There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school. There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent boys of and Co-education and Uni-sex school.  There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school.”  
                                                      Table-4
Significance relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescent of and Co-education and Uni-sex school separately.

                      Variables
                        r-values
Significance relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education school
                        
                           0.010ns
Significance relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Uni-sex school
                    
                           0.042ns

ns- not significant at 0.05 level
The table-4 indicates that , “There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Uni-sex school. There exists no significant relationship in Anxiety and Social Maturity of adolescents of Co-education school.”
CONCLUSION:-
On the basis of analysis of data and interoperation of results of present study, obtained through t-test and coefficient of correlation following findings were drawn:
The adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school do not differ significantly from each other in term of Anxiety from each other. The adolescent boys of Co-education and Uni-sex school do not differ significantly in term of Anxiety from each other. The adolescent girls of Uni-sex school are significantly higher than those girls of Co-education school in term of Anxiety. The adolescents of Co-education school do not differ significantly from each other in term of Anxiety from each other. The girls of Uni-sex school significantly higher than those adolescent boys of Uni-sex school in term of Anxiety. The adolescents of Uni-sex school are significantly higher than that adolescents of Co-education school in term of Social Maturity. The adolescent boys of Co-education and Uni-sex school do not differ significantly in relation to Social Maturity from each other. The adolescent girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school do not differ significantly in relation to Social Maturity from each other. The adolescents of Co-education school do not differ significantly in term of Social Maturity from each other. The adolescents of Uni-sex school do not differ significantly in term of Social Maturity from each other. The adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school have no significant relationship in relation to Anxiety and Social Maturity within each other. The adolescent boys of Co-education and Uni-sex school have no significant relationship in relation to Anxiety and Social Maturity within each other. The adolescent girls of Co-education and Uni-sex school have no significant relationship in relation to Anxiety and Social Maturity within each other. The adolescents of Co-education school have no significant relationship in relation to Anxiety and Social Maturity within each other. The adolescents of Co-education and Uni-sex school have no significant relationship in relation to Anxiety and Social Maturity within each other.
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Zeidner, M. (1966) How do high school and college students cope with situations? The British Journal of Educational Psychology 66(1): 115-128.
Kaur, Parminder (2001). Social Maturity as a Resultant Effect of Parent – Child Relationship. Unpublished M.Ed. Dissertation, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
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