Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2020)

Author(s):
Arti Kumari

Abstract:
The current study was designed to examine birth order differences in adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among Families of G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar across four different social class. The present study examine birth order differences in 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 respondents for the analyzing birth order differences in adolescents’ perceptions of parent-adolescent relationship among families of G.B.P.U.A. &T., pantnagar. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) revealed that adolescent having first born or second born or third born showed high significant difference in protecting, symbolic punishment, demanding, symbolic and object reward domains of relationship with both mother’s and father’s among class I and class II as compared to class III and IV. Whereas, rejecting, object punishment, indifferent and neglecting among birth order of class III and class IV have high level of significant difference.