A Study on Interrelation of Home and School Environment With Vocational Maturity of Senior Secondary School Students

Dr. Shruti Kant Pandey

Volume : IV, Issue : XII, December - 2014

A Study on Interrelation of Home and School Environment With Vocational Maturity of Senior Secondary School Students

Dr. Shruti Kant Pandey

Abstract :

Home and school environment are deciding factors in ensuring the development of vocational maturity among students. To reinforce the notion a study was conducted on the interrelation between home as well as school environment and vocational maturity of senior secondary school students of government and private schools of Delhi. 120 randomly selected students of four government and private schools were taken as sample for the conduct of study. A Vocational Attitude Maturity Scale by Dr. Manju Mehta and two self–developed questionnaires were used to collect the data through descriptive survey method. The data was analyzed using T Test, Mean and Standard Deviation of the collected scores. After analysis of the data it was found that there is positive correlation among home as well as school environment and vocational maturity of senior secondary school students. The vocational maturity of private school students was found more than the students studying in government schools. The study established that better home and schools environment is helpful in development vocational maturity of individuals. However, no significant difference was found between vocational maturity levels of male and female students involved in the study.