Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2020)

Author(s):
Arti Kumari

Abstract:
This study focused on the effects of family type on adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among Families of G.B.P.U.A. &T., pantnagar. The present study investigate effect of family type on adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship from four different social classes Class I, Class II, Class III, and Class IV of G.B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Forty adolescents were randomly selected as respondents from each social class of families making a total of 160 adolescent respondents for the analyzing the effects of family type on adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among families of G.B.P.U.A. &T., Pantnagar. The results show that respondent showed high significant difference in the domains protecting, symbolic punishment, demanding, symbolic reward and object reward with their relation across nuclear and joint family type of class I and II as compared to class III and IV but in case of extended family type high significant difference was found in class II as compared to class III and IV. Whereas, rejecting, object punishment, indifferent and neglecting among family types of class III and class IV have high level of significant difference.