Impact of interpersonal conflicts on psycho-social behaviour among adolescents girls

Pages: 355-360
Maya Rathnasabapathy, Maharishi R., and Athilakshmi R. (Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Languages Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu)
J. Reeves Wesley (VIT Business School (VITBS), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu)

The goals of the research is to examine the impact of interpersonal conflicts on psycho-social behaviour of adolescents girls. The group consisted of 1218 adolescents girls in the age group of 13-18 years selected by convenient sampling method. Twelve Government schools were selected from twelve districts of Tamil Nadu. Overall, our findings suggested that the conflict in family, conflict with parents, siblings and friends were significantly influenced psychological and social factors such as emotional intelligence, resilience, stress, family environment, school problem, social problem and personal problems.