Abstract: Family plays an important and powerful role in the lives of young adults. Adulthood is a crucial age range for young people, as they face a variety of difficulties in their lives at this age. Young adults may face rejection and feelings of isolation. The aim of this research is to examine the degree of loneliness and the type of locus of control among young adults from joint and nuclear families. A total of 134 young adults between the ages of 18 and 22, from both joint and nuclear families, were recruited. For data collection, random sampling was used as a sampling technique. The UCLA Loneliness Scale (version 3) was created by Daniel W. Russell in 1996, and the participants were given the Locus of Control Scale Indian Adaptation of the Levenson Scale (Vohra, 1992). Since the research was conducted in 2019 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, data was collected online using Google Forms. Microsoft Office Excel was used to analyze the results. Two samples were used for summary statistics and the t-test, assuming unequal variance. The findings revealed that there was no difference in levels of loneliness between adults from joint families and those from nuclear families. It also observed that among young adults from joint families and nuclear families, there was no significant difference in internal locus of control and chance factor of locus of control.
Keywords: Loneliness, Locus of Control, Young adults, Joint families, Nuclear families.
Title: Loneliness and Locus of Control among Young Adults Belonging To Joint Families and Nuclear Families
Author: Pooja Agrawal, Varsha Singh, Abhijeet Chore
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 2023 - June 2023
Page No: 127-133
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 27-April-2023
