Perception of Fathers Rejection in Adolescents

The emotional immaturity of parents generates feeling of rejection. Another factor that adversely affects the perception of fathers rejection in adolescents, is marital adjustment of parents. The present study was undertaken to find out the effects and interaction among emotional maturity, marital adjustment of parents and sex of adolescents on the perception of fathers rejection in adolescents. Emotional maturity and marital adjustment of parents are evaluated through Emotional Maturity Scale developed by Dr. Y. Singh & Dr. M. Bhargava and Comprehensive marital Adjustment Inventory developed by Prof. O. P. Mishra respectively. Parents-Child relationship Scale developed by Dr. Nalini Rao was used to measure rejecting experience of adolescents. 2x2x2 ANOVA was used to compute results. Results shows that emotional maturity and marital adjustment of the parents and Sex of adolescents strongly influence the rejecting perception of adolescents.