Self Awareness as a Predictor of Adolescent Behavior among Nursing Students: A School Based Study

Abstract

Adolescence is “a period of great strain and stress, storm and strife’. Every individual wants to live a healthy and peaceful life. Each one must be aware of one’s strength, weakness, feelings, perceptions, thoughts, behaviours, initiation, motivations and actions particularly at specific life events. Self-awareness directs to perform any work in effective manner. Adolescents are expected to have highest level of self-awareness as it is the most important turning point in one’s life Objectives: 1) To assess the level of self-awareness among the adolescents. 2) To evaluate the social behaviour of the adolescents. 3) To find out the relationship between self-awareness on the social behaviour of the adolescents. Research Design: Correlation study. Population: Adolescents in the age group of 13-17 years both males and females Sample Size: 909. MaterialS: Modified self-awareness Scale and Researcher developed Adolescent social behavior scale. Results: Self-awareness has positive non-significant (r=0.004, p=0.91) relationship with the social behavior among adolescents. Conclusion: The study findings reveal that as the self awareness improves there are chances of improving the social behavior of adolescents. There are many factors contributing to social behavior such as education, socio-economic status, parental education and their occupation, friends and facilities provided for growth, motivation of adolescents and the surrounding environment and most importantly the provisions for facilitating the interactions between these factors.