Abstract: School violence has become an international problem affecting the well- being of adolescent students. The Present study was designed to find out the impact of home environment on attitude towards school violence among adolescent students with different working status of mothers. To date, few studies have examined how home environment related factors leads to school violence among adolescent students. Mishra’s Home environment scale and Gautam’s School Violence scale were administered. A total sample of 300 adolescent students randomly drawn from 10 different schools of Amritsar city, out of which 150 were of working mothers and 150 were of non-working mothers. Percentile-test and Chi-square were worked out. Findings revealed no significant impact of home environment on attitude towards school violence i.e. both are independent of each other. It was found that working status of mother does affect home environment and attitude towards school violence which was in favor of adolescents of working mothers.
Keywords: School Violence, Home Environment, Attitude, Adolescents, Working status of mothers.
Title: Impact of Home Environment on attitude towards School Violence among adolescents with different working status of mothers
Author: Dr. Neerja Gautam, Ms Pawandeep Kaur
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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