“A Study to Assess the Psychosocial Problems of Adolescents Residing at Selected Urban and Rural Areas of Sangli District.”

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Mr. Samson Wilson Kamble, Mr. Narayan K. Ghorpade

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A Cross-sectional comparative descriptive research design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in selected Urban and Rural areas of Sangli district,to assess the psychosocial problems among adolescents of selected urban areas and rural areas, and to compare the psychosocial problems of adolescents between selected urban and rural areas. The sample comprised of 500 sample from urban area and 500 sample from rural area of Sangli district. Sample was selected using nonprobability purposive sampling technique. Data collected by Self-structured questionnaire to assess psychosocial problems of Adolescents and data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.The finding of the study showed that 4.8% of urban adolescents and 5.4% of rural adolescents have scholastic problems. In domain of emotional problems 14.4% adolescents from urban area and 15.2% from rural area facing emotional problems. 13.4% adolescents from urban area and 11.4% form rural area have communication problems. 22.2% adolescents from urban area and 18% from rural area facing the interdependent problems. And in the domain of social problems 19.2% adolescents from urban area and 17.8% from rural area facing the social problems.  The study concludes that adolescents of urban area have slightly high percentage of communication, interdependent and social problems as compare to rural adolescents. Were as adolescents from rural area has slightly high percentage of scholastic and emotional problems as compare to adolescents from urban area. Results showed that there is no significant difference in the average score of psychosocial problems between the urban and rural area adolescents.

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