A STUDY OF DYSFUNCTIONAL ATTITUDE, FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND GENDER DIFFERECE AMONG ADOLESCENTS

The current study designed to study dysfunctional attitude and family environment among adolescents and 150 (75 male and 75 female) adolescents has been selected from various schools located in Chandigarh. The age of the sample ranged between 16 to 18 years with a mean age of 16.37. Family Environment Scale (Moos & Moos, 1994), Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (Weissman & Beck, 1978) and statistical analysis of the obtained data has been done with the help of deceptive statistics and ‘t’ values to discuss the results. The tvalue revealed that a significant difference between the two sets of values. The obtained p-is reflected that the difference is statistically significant and it can be concluded that there is a statistically significant difference in family environment between the two sets of data, but no significant difference in dysfunctional attitude