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| Published: September 26, 2021
Assessment of Counseling Needs and their Correlation with Friendship Patterns among Adolescents
Research scholar, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Research scholar, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.179.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.179
ABSTRACT
Guidance and counseling needs of adolescents are those needs necessary to resolve their problems which they experience in day-to-day life, help to improve their personal development and encourage individual welfare. Friendship is the warp and woof of the social fabric. It does not merely bind society together but provides essential emotional sustenance, buffering against stress and preserving physical and mental health. To assess the provision status of counseling services and identify and compare the counseling needs and friendship patterns of adolescents in government and private schools among adolescents in private and government schools of Ludhiana city. The study was conducted on 240 adolescents (120 government and 120 private). Psychological Counseling Needs Scale by Chouhan and Arora (2009) was used to assess the counseling needs. Dimensions of Friendship Scale by Chandna and Chadha (1986) was used to assess the friendship patterns among adolescents. A self-structured questionnaire was used to assess the provision status of guidance and counseling services to adolescents. The results revealed that there was inadequacy of counselor in the government schools. Government school adolescents significantly showed high requirement for psychological counseling needs as compared to private school adolescents. Irrespective of the gender and type of school, results of correlation analysis revealed that the adolescents who have better friendships are in lesser need of counseling services.
Keywords
Psychological Counseling Needs, Friendship Patterns, Provision Status, Adolescents Guidance
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© 2021, Vanika & Sharma S.
Received: July 10, 2021; Revision Received: September 13, 2021; Accepted: September 26, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.179.20210903
10.25215/0903.179
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021