Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Self-Confidence Among Senior Secondary School Girls: Influence Of Parental Encouragement

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Dr. Anshu Narad1 , Amit Kumar Singh2

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Abstract: “Self-Confidence Is An Individual’s Perceived Ability To Act Effectively In A Situation To Overcome Obstacles And To Get Things Go All Right” (Basavanna (1975). “Parental Encouragement Is An Attempt To Measure Quantitatively The Parental Encouragement As Perceived By The Child”( Agarwal,1999).The Current Study Was Conducted With The Aim To Analyze The Relation In Self-Confidence And Parental Encouragement Of Girl Students. The Sample Included 200 Senior Secondary School Girls (100 From Government And 100 From Private Schools) Selected From Jaunpur And Azamgarh Districts Of Uttar Pradesh By Employing Simple Random Sampling. The Findings Revealed That Private Schools Girls Had Greater Self-Confidence As Compared To Their Government School Counterparts. Further, Girls’ Studying In Government And Private Schools Received Similar Parental Encouragement And A Significant Positive Relation Exists In The Self-Confidence And Parental Encouragement Of Senior Secondary School Girls.

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