Psycho Social Problems of Adolescent School Students – A Descriptive Study

Abstract

Adolescent students undergo enormous problems in their development period of adolescence.  These problems make them to develop mental health issues like depression, anxiety, fear etc.  They have problem at home with their parents, siblings and elders and at school, they have problems in learning, misunderstanding with teachers, peer pressure and problems in developing friendship. Therefore, this research concentrates on the problems of adolescent students by employing descriptive research design and utilizing stratified disproportionate random sampling technique, the researcher gathered information from 700 male students and female students. Student’s Problem scale of Dr.Harkant D. Badami (1977) has been utilized for data collection. Association between cordial relationship with teachers and students problem and association between with whom the adolescents discuss their problems and students problem and study habits and students problem have been analyzed by using SPSS. Findings and suggestion are given in the article.