Psychosocial Adjustment of Home and Institutionalized Adolescents in Awassa Town
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2006-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to compare the psychosocial adjustment of
the home and the institutionalized adolescelHs in the town of Awassa, The sex
differences in each of those adolescent groups, and the group diffe rences in the
psychosocial adjustment of duration of stay inside the child-rearing institution
were also investigated,
100 adolescents (50 males and 50 f emales) were selected from the Awassa SOS
Secondary School using a stratified random sampling technique/procedure, Out
of the total samples 50% were home-reared & the remaining 50% were
institutionalized adolescents,
The data for this study was collected using self-administered questionnaire with
demographic questions and psychosocial adjustment measures adapted from
various slandardized items, And the collected data was analyzed using s uch
statistical methods as t-test, one way ANOVA and Scheffe 's procedure, Mean
comparisons were also run,
Findings of this study revealed that there was a significant group difference in
psychosocial adjustment of the home and the institutionalized adolescents, But
significanl sex differences between adolescents in each group of adolescents
were nOI observed. The result indicated that there were significant group
differences between the three sub-groups of the institutionalized adolescents thai
were classified on their length of stay, And finally major findings with possible
conclusions and recommendations were fO lO.warded,
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Psychosocial Adjustment of Home