Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

Vocational Interest of School Dropout Adolescents Girls

Santosh Sangwan, Krishna Duhan, Anju Aneja

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 Historically, large numbers of students dropped out of school before graduation. Academic challenges, grade retention, disengagement from school and problems with behaviors and attendance frequently begin in elementary school, compound over time and are linked with dropping out in later years. For the present investigation Devan village of District Hisar from Haryana state was selected purposively under AICRP project. The vocational interest of identified school dropout girls in the age range of 17–24 years of age, was measured by using Vocational Interest Record (VIR) developed by Kulshrestha (1987). To judge the environment of school dropout girls, Family Environment Scale by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) was administered. Results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to lower middle category of socio–economic status and nearly fifty percent had showed average and above average interest in household work. Majority of respondents had low level of interest in artistic, agriculture, persuasive, scientific, executive and constructive type of vocations. Regarding the cohesion, expressiveness and conflict in the family, majority of respondents perceived average level of family environment. Equal percentage of respondents felt that degree of importance of clear organization structure in planning family activities and responsibilities is average and high

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Santosh Sangwan, Krishna Duhan, Anju Aneja Vocational Interest of School Dropout Adolescents Girls International Journal of Scientific Research,Volume : 5 | Issue : 8 |August 2016

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