Family Environment as a Predictor of Educational Aspiration of Secondary Level Adolescents

Abstract

This research paper identifies contribution of the Family Environment to the Educational Aspiration of secondary level adolescents. The main objectives of this study were, to find the contribution of Family Environment to the Educational Aspiration of secondary level adolescents as well as correlation between them in relation to gender and medium. Descriptive survey method was adopted for this study. 215 adolescents were randomly selected from the three schools of District Azamgarh in eastern UP. The population of the study comprises of adolescents of Class X. The researcher has used self-constructed and standardized scale for assessment of Family Environment. However, for Educational Aspiration, Educational Aspiration Scale (form P) was used which is developed by V. P. Sharma and A. Gupta published by National Psychological Corporation, Agra. The researcher has critically analyzed the data with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Spearman correlation and simple regression have been used for knowing relationship and contribution. Results of this analysis show that in the case of Hindi medium male adolescents the contribution of Family Environment was very high (20.9 %). And in all the cases of English medium and Hindi medium adolescents, the impact of Family Environment on Educational Aspiration of male adolescents was high in comparison to female adolescents. These results show that the environment of family play an important role in developing educational aspiration in adolescents. In this study the results also show that the relationship in Family Environment and Educational Aspiration is high in male adolescents in comparison to female adolescents.