Decisions on youth’s behavior within the family

Pages: 119-122
Anubhuti Sharma and Sudha Banth (Department of Psychology, Punjab University, Chandigarh)
S.K. Srivastava (Department of Psychology, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar)

The present study described the extent to which the single male and female young adolescents are involved in age- related decision- making areas such as- personal, educational, relationship, leisure, and entertainment, and the extent to which their parents, and family is involved. Forty single male and female youth were assessed using the ‘youth decision- making involvement scale’. The results implied that single male youth tend to take suggestions from all family members and involve them jointly in taking decisions for them, which shows a feeling of togetherness and cohesion in the males, while in the case of single female youth, the parents tend to decide for their areas of decision- making reflecting females’ dependence and conventional Indian mindset and simultaneously, the parents’ care, concern and overprotective attitude towards them. This has brought with itself a new perspective of the modern times.