Effect of counseling on personality: An empirical study

Pages: 757-761
Sarika Mohta (Department of Psychology, College of Arts, Science & Humanities, Mody University of Science & Technology, Lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan)

The main objective of the study was to measure the effect of counselling on the personality of students studying in class IX. This research was conducted on 200 secondary of class IX, Pre-Post experimental research designed was used, counselling was given only to experimental group subjects. “Dimension Personality Inventory” of Bhargav was used to measure different personality dimensions. It measures 12 (six positive & six negative) personality dimensions, Activity Passivity, Enthusiastic Non enthusiastic, Assertive Submissive, Suspicious Trusting, Depressive Non Depressive, Emotional instability and Emotional stability. On the basis of the counselling interventions, there has been significant change at 0.01 level of significance in the personality dimension of Activity in the experimental group. The subjects were more active in class X then there level of Activity in class IX. No significant change has been found in other personality dimensions.