Abstract
The objective of present study is to access the coping strategies of adolescent girls coming from low, middle and high socioeconomic status (SES). This research comprised of 201 female students who completed the Youth coping response inventory (YCRI) and Kuppuswammy Socio Economic Status scale. One Way Analysis was used to analyse the data. The results revealed significant differences among different groups of SES on diversion (F=31.625, p<.001), destructive (F=30.377, p<.001) and YCRI (F=3.220, p<.05). Implications: The study reported that individuals high on SES have positive coping strategies whereas individuals low on SES have negative coping strategies. Therefore, it is implicated that school students coming from lower SES need counselling services as they are having high rate of maladjusted coping behaviour. School management must develop programs in order to facilitate such adolescents and provide a platform with healthy competition and impartial academic growth.
Highlights
The objective of present study is to access the coping strategies of adolescent girls coming from low, middle and high socioeconomic status (SES)
Aim of the present research was to examine the effect of socio economic status on youth coping behaviour
The above result exhibits that females from high socio economic status (SES) have better coping responses in the area of diversion as compared to those who belong to middle and low SES backgrounds
Summary
Sample and procedure: Two hundred and one females from lower to upper socio economic status (SES) from various secondary high schools in Aligarh (India) participated in this study through stratified random sampling. Related to positive adjustment in the participants It appears that most coping strategies on this factor represent ways in which youth divert their attention from a problem. Kuppuswammy Socio Economic Status scale (Kuppuswammy 1981) revised version 2014: The original scale was published in the year 1981, it incorporates three characteristics to be assessed and scored: Education level of the head of family (HOF), occupation of the HOF, and income per month. It attempts to measure the SES of an individual in a urban region. All the assumptions of One-way ANOVA were checked and results were found to be satisfactory before the analysis was conducted
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