Social support status among adolescents in Haryana

Pages: 211-214
Rupika Chopra, Shakuntla Punia, and Santosh Sangwan (Department of Human Development and Family Studies
I. C. College of Home Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

Social support is a range of interpersonal relationships that have an impact on the individual’s functioning and generally includes support satisfaction. The present study was undertaken on 460 adolescents, i.e., 113 adolescents studying in university and 347 adolescents studying in school of 11th and 12th standard from Hisar district of Haryana state from the age group of 16 to 17 years. Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) developed by Sarson et al. (1987) was used to assess the social support of adolescents. Results found that female adolescents received more social support in terms of quantity (SSQN) and were more satisfied than their counterparts. Results further exposed that the adolescents who joined extra coaching classes got more social support in terms of quantity (SSQN) from non family members also as compared to the adolescents who did not joined any extra coaching classes.