Emotional And Behavioural Problems Amomg Adolescent Students

Abstract

The present study was conducted to examine the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems among adolescent students studying class tenth to graduation from the state of Andhra Pradesh with specific reference to Vijayawada city. A total of 200 students were selected for the study and the age between 13 and 18 years with a mean age of 16.26 (±1.87) years were participated in the study to examine the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems of adolescent students and to determine whether problems varied according to age, gender and so on.  In this study more than half of the sample (69%) constituted girl students. The data collected for administering the English and Telugu versions of Youth Self Report (YSR) developed by Achenbach (2001).The significant influence of age, gender and number of friends on certain behavioural and emotional problems were observed and father’s occupation has been found that no significant influence.