Comparative Study of Family Climate and Self-confidence among the Senior Secondary School Students of the Arts Stream

Abstract

The present study aims to compare the Family Climate and self-confidence of the male and female respondents of the Arts stream of senior secondary schools. The sample consists of 345 Arts stream students amongst them 180 are Male and 165 are Female. The family Environment Scale, FES prepared by Chadha and Bhatia (1993), and the Self-confidence Inventory prepared by Agnihotri, ASCI (1993) are used for this study. The Findings of the research study indicate no significant difference exists between Male and Female respondents of the Arts stream on the measure of the variable of Family climate. The t-value was 0.296, and the mean values were 247.58 and 248.26 for males and females, respectively. However, a significant difference was found between male and female respondents of the Arts stream on the variable of Self-confidence. The calculated t-value is 3.587. The mean values differ between the two groups at 27.44 and 30.81 respectively. It clearly shows that females are better than males on the variable of Self-confidence. Thus, it can be said with assurance that there is a marked difference between male and female respondents of the Arts stream on the variable of Self-confidence because the calculated value is significant even at a 0.05 confidence level.