A comparitive analysis of identity formation among adolescents

Pages: 447-449
Alka (N. M. P. G. College, Hansi, Hisar, Haryana)
Nov Rattan Sharma (Department of Psychology, M. D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Adolescent age is the age of changes. In this age adolescents are in dilemma, whether they are child or they are now matured person. Adolescent age is working as bridge between childhood and adulthood. In this age adolescents merely confused to their identity. If they are not able to find healthy pattern of identity, they have to face identity crisis and they indulge in the antisocial activities. There are gender differences in the formation of identity. The present study is an attempt to find out the gender difference on Identity formation of the adolescents. For this purpose the study was conducted on 300 adolescents which were further categorized into three groups i.e 7-8 grade, 9-10 grade and 11-12 grade. To compare the gender differences inferential and descriptive statistics were used. And found that there were the gender differences on identity formation.