Comportement des enfants et des adolescents

Abstrait

Exploring the Influence on Perception of Social Problems and Youth Problems among the Indian Youth

Janvi

In India, all the youth problems arise directly from the society and its cultural phenomena. The adolescents ought to be directed and their energies should be utilized for the headway of the nation. A social problem is defined as a situation that affects number of people living in the society by disturbing their source of happiness and satisfaction in life.

Objective: This study aims at identifying the effect of youth issues that are influenced by social issues with the help of Social Problem Scale (SPS-BSKA) by Dr. S.K. Bawa and Dr. A Kumar and Youth Problem Inventory (YPI) by Dr. Mithlesh Verma.

Methods: The sample of the research consists of 105 young adults i.e. 41 males and 64 females. The data was treated by applying descriptive statistics and followed by applying inferential statistics such as t-test and regression.

Results: The null hypothesis is that variance of the two groups i.e., males and females of the social problem scale and youth problem inventory is approximately equal. The alternate hypothesis is that distributions of males and females in social problem scale and youth problem inventory are significant and different in shape. The obtained data displayed a significant difference between the means of socio-political, youth problem inventory, family problems and personal problems and oversensitivity. It was also found that perception of social problem and youth problem are significantly co-related with each other.

Conclusion: It tends to be expressed that adulteration issues of youth are the most grounded factor to affect the social issues though health related issues have the negligible effect out of all indicators on social problems for both males and females. Thus it is being expected that if we can decrease and handle majority of the issues occurring from society, the adolescent issues can be reduced.