Impact of Different Factors on Family Environment among Adolescents

Abstract

Family environmentis any condition which contributes to the overall development of individual and thus the need to foster favorable family environment is the need of an hour and more especially the need of favorable family environment is for adolescents. Adolescence is a period of stress and storm. It is also a period of self identity therefore adolescence at this stage need a family which can support, help and emancipates them. There are several factors like gender, locale and category which impact family environment. Various studies conducted on family environment provided the evidence of different factors which impact the family environment. Therefore, after reviewing various studies the researcher felt the need to conduct more study on this area. The researcher intended to study on impact of different on family environment among adolescents. For studying this, the researcher used field survey method. The population of the present study is adolescents students studying in class 11selected from Kohima District of Nagaland. The sample of the study is 300 students of 11 standards.For measuring family environment, Family environment scale of Harpreet Bhatia and Dr. N.K. Chadha(1993) was used. For analysing data t-test was used.The presentstudy found that gender has no impact on family environment, whereas locale and category of students have significant impact on family environment.